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No, this BANANA is yellow.
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This RED is an apple.
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No, that apple is RED.
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These purples are grapes!
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Hee . . . hee . . . no. These GRAPES are PURPLE.
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A green is a lime!
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Lime is a green.
I mean, a lime is GREEN!
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THESE greens
is not a lime. THESE
greens is peas!
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AAAGH!NO!ThesePEASis green!Imean,thesepeasARE green!Thesepeasaregreen.
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Is a white mushroom?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!
A MUSHROOM is WHITE !
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Blues! Blues! The blues are blueberries!
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BLUEberries! BLUEberries!
These BLUEberries are BLUE!
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snap!
Yuck! No sour pinks!
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Pinks are grapefruits! I mean, GRAPEFRUITS
ARE PINK!
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This old brown is mushy-squishy!
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This old brown PEAR PEAR PEAR is mushy-squishy!
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THESE browns are not mushy. These are wrinkly browns.
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Those browns are RAISINS. Raisins are brown! Brown RAISINS are BROWN! And wrinkly. Wrinkly, brown raisins. Wrinkly, brown raisins.
Wrinkly, brown raisins.
Wrinkly . . . wrinkly . . . wrinkly . . .
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No, green-and-red watermelons!
Green-and-red watermelons!
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Ooo! This orange is a pumpkin!
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NO! You see . . . you said it backward. Again. It’s an orange pumpkin. The pumpkin is orange. Pumpkin . . . pumpkin . . .
orange . . . orange . . .
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This orange is orange.
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This orange is orange?
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Yup.
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This yummy is orange.
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It sure is.
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For Ronnie, who finds nice places for stories to live
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The artwork for this book was created digitally.
Library of Congress Control Number 2024048342
ISBN 978-1-4197-7680-9 eISBN 979-8-88707-399-6
Text and illustrations © 2025 John Himmelman Cover © 2025 Abrams
Book design by Melissa Nelson Greenberg
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