My Many Colored Days

I know, I know - you're going "Isn't Seuss already for little kids?" A lot of people think that - that's why they get Green Eggs and Ham for their two year olds.

Unfortunately for them, most of the Seuss canon is for early readers, or even older. These books are too long for babies and toddlers to

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sit through, and some of them are even a little frightening for more sensitive children (I'm continually perturbed by my five-year-old niece's terror of Horton Hears a Who, but she doesn't like the bullying that goes on there. It's a wonderful book, just not for her).

This book, by contrast, was clearly written with little-little ones in mind. There's a line or two on every page, and most pages are two-page spreads.

Seuss didn't do the illustrations, but I think that they do justice to his work anyway.

Some people are concerned about the color symbolism. (I'm wondering why they pick on the negative connotations of brown and black, but not the connotations of yellow (asian?) and purple (gay?), but that's beside the point.) I don't see this as a problem, especially when each color is illustrated with a different animal in that color, and neither does the (black) father of my two nieces.

But if it is a concern for you, by all means check the book out of the library before purchasing it.

Incidentally, the board book is very sturdily constructed. Not all board books are, but this one has very thick pages, very secure binding - always a good thing :)

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Each color in this book represents a mood. It goes through most moods that children and we as adults deal with each day.

I really like this book alot the pictures in it are outstanding! I bought this book for my baby when he was about one year old and he likes it more than Elmo now. He likes to

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hear it over and over and I do not mind reading it, whenever!

In the classroom I would use this to introduce colors, but to also explain that it is okay to be moody. We all are, they just have to handle it well. This would also be an interesting way to create pictures because they are so unique.

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This book is would be fun for 3rd grade and younger. It could help the younger grades with there colors. While the older grades could write and draw about what color they are that day and why.

A good book to read when learning colors and about poems. You could ask the students to make their own color days book for the week each page for each day. Then at the end of the week they could take it home.

A beautiful, bright book acknowledging the many moods of a child, or anyone for that matter. "Grey Day... Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today." A line which many Portlanders might be able to relate to. As well as the energy and excitement of " a busy, buzzy bee", this book is fun

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and interesting for young and old alike. Talking about colors and the various moods that one might relate to a color too.

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This book is about the different colors of the rainbow and how each one will reflect a different emotion. It shows how everyday we can be a different person depending on how busy we are one day or how tired we are etc. This book is good for pretend reading because the pictures demonstrate how the

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color display's an emotion.

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This book, by Dr. Suess, is a board book. It would be perfect for the younger students. It is about a boy who tells us about the colors he wears and what each color represents. Each different color represents a mood and he is very good at expressing his feelings about each color.
I liked this book.

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The author had a great idea on how to teach colors by using moods which kids can relate to. I would love to have this in my library as a center book.
This book could be kept in the classroom. The students could have this book as a choice when going to the classroom reading center. I could even pair them up in small groups and have them read it to each other while at center time.

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This is a book to teach young children about their colors. It tells the story of a young child who feels like different colors on different days. The books teaches the child yellow,blue,red,brown,gray,orange,green,purple, pink, and black. While teaching the colors, their are also pictures of

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different animals that you could also discuss as a class to relate certain animals with certain colors.

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This book is about how different moods are like different colors and how they correspond. This is a comforting book when someone is having a bad day because it says they will going back to being themselves. The book has great pictures that make the book fun for anyone to read. Good book to talk

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about feelings and character building.

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This is a much different book from most Dr. Seuss books. The art really does a lot of the talking. The illustrators use very vibrant colors to get across the themes of the book.

This book is one of my favorites. In this story the author explains how he feels on different days. This helps children understand that we have a range of emotions and that every one we have is okay and normal. The illustrator uses colorful pictures that bring the reader in, but leave the details

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to the readers imagination as well.

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Great book! I love using this to help students handle their emotions, prevent yelling, hitting, and name calling. Helps students better understand their emotions and how others feel too.

I liked this book. The first reason I liked this book is for its choices in font. As the plot continues, the fonts change from a typical Arial font, to whacky, stretched, thin, bold, and cursive fonts, each matching up with a particular feeling or onomatopoeia. For words such as “kick,”

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“buzzy,” and “sad,” the letters that make up the words are places above and below where the normal sentence lines are placed to emphasize their importance and meaning in the story. I also like this book because of the connection between the text and the illustrations. Each one or two page spread talks about a different color and emotion associated with that color. For example, on the page with the text “on other days I’m other things. On Bright Blue Days I flap my wings” there is a large bright blue bird mid-flight, placing an action and a color with the exciting choice of color. This allows the reader to place an emotion and action with a familiar color, enhancing the potential for deeper understanding. The big idea of this book is that even though there will be days where you feel different, whether that be hyper and jumping around, or sad and want to be alone, you will always go back to being yourself in the end. This is an important lesson for children who are still trying to understand their own and others’ feelings.

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This book explores how each day comes with different feelings and moods, which are expressed here as various colors (i.e., pink is happy, black is mad, etc.). This is a Dr. Seuss book that was published posthumously based on a manuscript he wrote with a note that he wanted to see someone else's

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interpretation for the illustrations. The illustrations are done by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, who created gorgeous paintings full of vibrant brushstrokes and, of course, striking colors. The result is a beautiful book about exploring one's many emotions and giving credence to them all. I highly recommend this book, but it's worth noting that if you're looking for the typical Seussical fare, this is not it.

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This book is amazing, and I'm really not sure why it's not as well known. Dr. Seuss himself is quite famous, but everyone thinks of him for all of his ridiculous rhymes and books besides this one. This book portrays different emotions and feelings with different colors, but they aren't always

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necessarily the color that generally associated with each feeling. It also presents different emotions in a very acceptable way. It talks about how everyone has good and bad days and how emotions are good, and acceptable. Such a wonderful book

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I made the mistake of picking this book up for my toddler after just flipping through a couple pages and not reading the whole thing - I would have thought Dr. Seuss would be safe. Unfortunately the choices of connotations for some of the colors have unfortunately racist implications - "brown" is

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slow and gloomy, "black" is angry and frightening. I don't think for a minute this was intentional racism, but it's also not a book I want in my house.

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This book goes through colors and what those colors feel like to the author. It talks about how he relates colors to how he feels on certain days. Great book to teach both colors and emotions. Illustrations are wonderful paintings.

'My Many Colored Days' is a fantastic book about feelings and moods. The beautiful illustrations explode in sensational color and masterfully depict the range of human moods and emotions. It has a more serious, nurturing tone than one might expect from a Dr. Seuss book and offers a great

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opportunity for parents (and teachers) to talk with children about their feelings.

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My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss was originally written the year I was born (so back in the days of bell bottoms, Adam-12, and Watergate) but wasn't published until five year's after Dr. Seuss's death. It's a book about color, emotions, and creativity.

Apparently, though, he didn't know how to

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illustrate it, which seems silly given the man's long career as an artist and illustrator. But he felt his art didn't match his words and he needed someone else to tackle the manuscript when the time was right.

Two illustrators did just that: Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, a husband and wife team. Their saturated colors and bold brush work are about as un-Seussian as possible. But given that he wanted the emphasis to be on his words, separate from his easily recognizable style, that's a good thing. The focus here is definitely on the colors and the emotions they can evoke.

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"Some days are yellow. Some are blue. On different days I'm different too." Dr Seuss takes the reader on a journey through the many different moods that can be experienced in life with paintings that reveal such striking images as a bright red horse kicking its heels, a cool and quiet green fish, a

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sad and lonely purple dinosaur, and an angrily howling black wolf. Using a spectrum of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals, this unique book helps children explore human moods and emotions.

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