Judy Blume books
Me, too!
I don't have a very strong memory of picture books, but something about three kittens (no, they didn't lose their mittens
) who had all different colours of paints and mixed them and spilled them all over and the different colours they made from mixing them.
Did you really enjoy reading / studying any of the classics in high school, if so which ones? (I loved reading "Great Expectations" and "Wuthering Heights" in about the 10th grade.