I thought the boy might be spooked by the goblins a little bit (they are pretty freaky), but so far he loves to find their bright little faces sneaking around the pages. However, leave it to the moon and all of his friends of the forest and valley to thwart their madness. They journey through a lush landscape and dream of devouring rainbows and hatch a sinister plan. So they travel to the Valley of the Rainbow to gorge themselves silly. Yea, so these Rainbow Goblins like to eat the colors of the rainbow, see. The goblins lived on colour - they prowled the valleys and climbed the highest mountains looking for rainbows, and when they found one, they caught it in their lassoes, sucked the colours out of it and filled their bellies with its bright liquid. Yellow, being the craftiest, was their chief. They were called the Rainbow Goblins and each had his own colour, which was also his name: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

Once there was a land that lived in fear of seven goblins. The paintings are bizarre, but absolutely spectacular. I'm not absolutely sure of this, but The Rainbow Goblins must have a cult following. By Ul de Rico/ published 1978 by Warner BooksĪs a child of the 70s, I'm wondering how I missed this one (and it's still in print for heavens sake!) When I was in Santa Fe last week, I met an illustrator who showed me her copy from childhood.

The white goblin ul de rico