My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of My Many Colored Days
Book Review: A great book about emotions
Summary: 5 Stars
This book provides an excellent way to begin talking with children about emotions, but is not limited to children. I have given it to colleagues (psychologists) to use as a coffee table/waiting room book. It has a message for everyone about the vivid but temporary experience of strong emotion.Book Review: The best board book I've seen yet!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book! My daughter is 4 months old, and she will actually sit still and look at the pictures while I read the book to her. I also think that this book will be a great tool for helping my daughter to express her moods when she is older. This is not a typical Dr. Seuss book, but it's one that every child should own.Book Review: amazing, fabulous
Summary: 5 Stars
this book is beautiful. my 2 year old daughter has been enjoying this book since she was 6 weeks old. the bright colors and rhythmic text mesmorize her to this day! now that she is two she enjoys telling us each color and the emotions they each represent. this is a must have for all babies and toddlers.Book Review: Brown and black are bad in this book
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't want to sound politically correct or paranoid, but in this book brown is "low, low down" and black is "mad and angry." All other colors, with the exception of purple, are positive. My toddler, who is bi-racial, started referring to his own skin color as "low, low down" after one reading! It was our last.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 common sentence 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 bear, "slow and low." On a yellow day, "I am a busy, buzzy bee." On a green day, he's a "cool and quiet 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.
"But it all turns out all right,
you see.
And I go back to being me."
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!