Little Painters

Author: Cheryl Rao

Illustrator: Tanvi Choudhury

It was holiday time. Veena and Vinay were in the garden. There were tins of paint everywhere.

There was white paint and red paint and green paint and blue paint and yellow paint.

The painters were busy. One painter was on a ladder. Another was hanging from the roof on a swing. “Can we help?” asked Veena and Vinay.

The painter gave each of them a brush. “Paint the inside of the gate,” he said to Veena.

“Paint the outside of the gate,” he said to Vinay.

They picked up two tins of paint and set to work. Veena painted one side of the gate. Vinay painted the other side of the gate.

The paint fell on the ground.

The paint fell on the wall.

The paint fell on them.

At last they finished. They wiped off the paint that had splashed on the ground. They wiped off the paint that had splashed on the wall.

They wiped off the paint that had splashed on them.

"I love my red gate!" said Veena.

"I love my green gate!" said Vinay.

“Oh, you have made a two-coloured gate!” cried the painter.

“Let us keep it that way!” said Mother.

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Illustration Attributions:

Cover page: Boy and girl smiling with paint on their hands and faces , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 2: Girl hanging from a tree branch and boy sitting near cans of paint , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 3: Palm on wall and handprints of different colors , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 4: Men painting a wall , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 5: Man giving a boy and a girl a paintbrush , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 6: Boy and girl painting two sides of a gate , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 7: Girl painting a wall , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 8: Girl and boy cleaning up paint , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 9: Mother helping girl and boy wipe paint off themselves , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 10: Girl standing happily next to a red gate and boy looking on , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 11: Boy standing next to a green gate , by Tanvi Choudhury © Pratham Books, 2012. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Disclaimer: https://www.storyweaver.org.in/terms_and_conditions

Some rights reserved. This book is CC-BY-4.0 licensed. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. For full terms of use and attribution, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Little Painters (English)

Painting the house is such fun! But what colour should the gate be?

This is a Level 1 book for children who are eager to begin reading.

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