PRESCHOOL
Krauss, Ruth

I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue

(3) PS Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Brought to life by Sendak's watercolors, Krauss's understated text voices an imaginative plan for re-doing the colors that surround the young narrator, from painting the ceilings green to making "a house like a rainbow." Without rhyme or fixed meter, the poetic words might be mannered were they by a less accomplished writer.

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