The Colors of Spring

 The Colors of Spring  is a 1987 SESAME STREET story book published by Idea l Toy s for the " BIG BIRD Story Magic " toy set.

On a Spring day, the  BIRDS  - of - a -  Feather  Club are trying to earn their " Know - Your - Colors " badges & LITTLE BIRD asks BIG BIRD for help. 1 st the Becca Bird paint  yellow   pictures  in front of 123 SESAME STREET, including pictures of Bees , Bananas & Prairie Dawn ' s hair. When they begin to paint blue pictures, including Grover on his bike , Cookie Monster comes by & crashes into Maxwell Bird , spilling his blue paint all over him.

The club then moves to the park where  OSCAR THE GROUCH  point s out some  GREEN  items for them to paint, including his  friend  Iggy the Inch  WORM  , w ho falls into Buddy ' s paint , splashing  GREEN  all over each of them. Becca BIRD is knocked out of Frazzle ' s wagon, & fall s into a patch of strawberries , turning red in the process.

Then the Orange family & the Purple family invite everyone over to their picnic lunch, but when every one sat on the same side , it tips over , spilling grape jam over Billy BIRD & orange juice over Holly BIRD.

On their way home it begin s to rain, & despite their hustle to get out of the rain , the BIRDS are caught in the storm , only to discover that i t has washed them clean , turn ing the BIRDS  yellow  again. & when the short lasting storm passed, the group continued their pursuit of a badge by painting pictures of a R A I N B O W.

 CAROLL SPINNEY  record ed the voice s of BIG BIRD &  OSCAR THE GROUCH , &  FRANK OZ  the voice of Cookie Monster , for the accompanying cassette tape.

BIG BIRD sings a song at the end of the tape, " With out Colors " , & there is also a musical inter lude listed on the tape as " Blue , Red ,  GREEN  , Orange & Purple " , which BIG BIRD sings after each color accident. Both are written by Dave Conner.