Told from the illustrator's perspective, a farm scene is being worked on and the barn is about to be painted. If you start focusing on the illustrations in the pages preceding the story you will notice that painting is coming to life.
Chicken wants to help and gets itself into the blue paint. It topples over and blue goes everywhere - herself, the ground, flowers and ducks. It gets out of control and the farm animals are about to enclose on her when she knocks over the paint remover and everything goes back to normal. Except for the blue sky.
When the book ends you see the illustrator painting her real barn on a blue sky day through the window above her desk. I had to turn back to the beginning (again) and saw the view from the window and saw it was raining earlier. I like books that make the reader double check for details - even us big people.
This could be used in art class when discussing mistakes when painting or in Kinder when discussing colors.
Reading Rumble 12-13
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