Violet ~ Tania Duprey Stehlik

 Violet is a girl who lives in a world where all of the people she knows are the colour of primary colours. One day her dad picks her up from school and a friend asks why her dad is blue and she is violet. Violet is a little upset by this and begins to question why she is different from all of the kids at school and even from her own parents. She goes home to ask her parents and her mom, who is red, while her dad is blue, sits her down and tells her that it's not a bad thing to be different from the kids at school. She puts blue and red paint on a piece of paper and mixes them together to demonstrate that violet is a combination of her mom and her dad, making her special because she is a little bit of both of them. Violet feels happy that she is a bit of both her parents and the next day at school tells the friend so with pride. 

This is a good book to introduce racial difference in a very non-confrontational way. The different colours could represent different things to different people, but it teaches that though you may be different from people on the outside, you should always be proud of who you are because you are a special person. Blue and red are pretty generic colours, so it isn't a book about certain races or orientations, but is abstract enough to let anyone insert themselves.