Monsters Come in Many Colors! is a 1980 Sesame Street storybook that explains how monsters get their colors. According to Herry Monster, monsters are naturally a dull beige color. They visit the monster paint factory to choose their own colors to match their environment. One little monster chooses to paint herself a mix of red, yellow, blue and green, so she can hide in a flower garden -- or in a crowd of colorful monsters.
Three friends, Dog, Cat, and Mouse, live happily—or so they think—in their beach hut by the sea until one night a mysterious Stranger, bearing gifts from the Winds of Change Trading Company, blows into their little world and turns it upside down. Soon Dog, Cat, and Mouse are fighting with each other. Is the foxy Stranger a troublemaker or does he mean well? And will Dog, Cat, and Mouse ever be happy again?