My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of My Many Colored Days
Book Review: Beautiful to Baby and Mom
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a 7 month old son who loves the colors and rhythm of this book. He studies the beautiful pictures and sits still until the very end. It will prove handy for years, I'm sure, as it deals with emotions and how it's ok to express them.Book Review: great for adults too!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've given this book to many artist-friends and other adults. I use it as a self-help, motivational book and it works! Everybody enjoys it! I keep a copy at my office and glance at it once in a while! It has beautiful artistic illustrations and a positive message about self-acceptance and understanding every-day emotions.Book Review: A must have for all parents of newborns
Summary: 5 Stars
My 11 month old daughter loves this book! She will search through her book basket several times a day for me to read it to her. She loves the "pink day" and jumps whenever she sees the page. This is a wonderful introduction to the world of reading for any child. I highly recommend it.Book Review: Beautifully illustrated
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is the best! It's not only my daughter's favorite, but I have a copy for myself as well. It's a great way to introduce a child to the life of colours. The illustrations are gorgeous and the text is wonderful for reading aloud.Book Review: Creating a Colorful Way of Communicating Emotion and Mood!
Summary: 5 Stars
Early in his career, Dr. Seuss wrote many books as Theo. LeSieg (the last name being his own name of Geisel in reverse) that were illustrated by others. In 1973, he wrote the rhymes for this book, but wanted someone else to illustrate it. After his death, his wife brought the book to his publisher's attention. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher have created a book filled with stunning paintings and fascinating typography to bring Dr. Seuss's range of daily moods and emotions alive. Using this story, people can communicate these feelings more vividly and accurately to one another.The book is obviously inspired by the observation you've heard many times, I'm feeling blue today.
"Some days are yellow.
Some are blue.
On different days
I'm different too."
"You'd be
surprised
how many ways
I change on Different
Colored
Days."
Most colors are also associated with an animal. Red is a horse kicking up its heels. Brown is a slow bear. On a yellow day, A busy bee is a yellow day. On a green day, he's a fish. On a happy pink day, he's a flamingo! On black days, he becomes a howling wolf. He even has mixed-up days, when he is several colors at once (disguised as a cut-out cookie of a person).
He's reassuring, as always, in the end. You can always go back to being yourself.
The paintings in the book are remarkable for the simple, fundamental images they represent . . . both building on and adding to our mental archetypes. They also use color and shape well to create a mood over two colorful pages. Further, the texture of painting is almost palpable to the touch, adding an appreciation for depth and context for the viewer or reader.
One way you can use this book is to ask your child what color he or she is today. You can also communicate your color, as well. You can each learn more about how to change one another's not-so-attractive colors in this way, or to help sustain desirable ones. I know of no other book that is so effective at creating concepts and vocabulary for conveying emotions and moods.
I suggest that you extend this book by adding other colors and images that capture moods and emotions that are not represented here. And don't feel like you have to limit this to your child. Adults can benefit from this perspective and way of communicating as well.
Live vividly and colorfully in ways that please you!