Written by Nina Laden, author of a number of children’s books, including Dear Little One, which was awarded Best Picture Book of the Year by School Library Journal, Love is my Favorite Color is beautifully illustrated and reads like poignant poetry. Illustrator Melissa Castrillon creates the drawings in pencil first, and then added color digitally. The text cleverly assigns emotions with concepts that initially don’t appear to align, but the effect is extremely powerful and lovely: “Hope is my favorite weather, truth is my favorite story,” and so on.