The Story of Colors

{{Short description|1999 picture book by Subcomandante Marcos}} {{Infobox book | name = The Story of Colors | image = Story of Colors cover.jpg | caption = | author = Subcomandante Marcos | illustrator = Domitilia Dominguez | cover_artist = | country = | genre = Children's picture book | publisher = Cinco Puntos Press | release_date = 1999 | media_type = | pages = | isbn = 0-938317-45-8 | oclc = 40142948 }} {{Portal |Children's literature}}

'''''The Story of Colors''''' (''La Historia de los Colores'') is a children's book written by Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. First published in 1996, it generated controversy after the National Endowment for the Arts canceled grant money for an illustrated bilingual edition in both Spanish and English. The Lannan Foundation stepped in with support after the NEA withdrew. The bilingual version was published in 1999, translated by Anne Bar Din with illustrations by Domitilia Dominguez.

After the NEA withdrew its support, National Public Radio featured the book on ''All Things Considered'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1046783|title=National Endowment for the Arts|date=March 10, 1999|accessdate=2009-04-11}}</ref> as did ''The Nation''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/comic-relief-nea-style/|title=Comic Relief, NEA-style|publisher=The Nation|date=April 19, 1999|last=Wypijewski|first=JoAnn}}</ref> and ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/031099mexico-book.html|title=N.E.A. Couldn't Tell a Mexican Rebel's Book by Its Cover|last=Preston|first=Julia|date=March 10, 1999|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

The book received two Firecracker Alternative Book Awards: in 1999 in the "Special Recognition/Wildcard Category: Maybe the NEA Was Wrong" and in 2000 for "Outstanding Work for Kids."<ref name=Firecracker-LibraryThing>{{cite web | title = List of Firecracker Award winners | url = http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Firecracker+Alternative+Book+Award | website = librarything.com | publisher = LibraryThing | access-date = December 15, 2014 }}</ref>

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