The Rock Paper Scissors Story Coloring Book follows the same narrative as the original story but presents the artwork as outlines for the reader to complete. Rock can be any kind of gray, or brown, or orange, or whatever the child decides a rock should be. Paper can be white or yellow or any color that makes sense to whoever's holding the crayons. Scissors gets handled however seems right.
The coloring format adds one more layer to the book's central idea about fairness. In the story, the three characters are equal participants in a game nobody can fix. In the coloring book, the child gets to choose what each one looks like, which is a small version of the same kind of authorship the game itself provides: you bring something to the outcome that nobody can predict in advance.
The book is designed for preschool through early elementary ages. The line work is clean and the scenes from the story are broken into manageable coloring sections. A child who has read the story will recognize the scenes. A child who hasn't will follow the story through the images.
It works well as a companion to the story book, or on its own as an introduction to the characters before the full narrative.