Yellow and pink days are happy like buzzing bees and jumping flamingos, directly in contrast to black days like mad and loud wolves, howling and growling at every cloud.Ĭolor cognizance is an essential step of a child’s development. Brown days are like slow bears, gray days are like still owls, and purple days are like dragging dinosaurs. Colors like brown, gray, and purple are associated with sadness and stagnancy. These colors have the modifier bright attached to them because other shades of red and blue can be characterized as darker, which would oppositely be aligned with low energy.

Bright red and blue days are associated with high energy, like a kicking horse and a flapping bird. This can foster negative self-concept for Black and Brown children and teach misleading information about various identities and diversity.Įmotions are not only partnered with colors in this book, but also with animals.

These designations reinforce narratives that darkness is bad and lightness is good. Dark colors represent emotions ranging from anger to sadness, while light colors represent emotions like happiness. However, Seuss also presents stereoptical messages about colors. Seuss attempts to give children a language to express their feelings by likening them to colors. This rare and beautiful book is bound to appeal to both the innocent young and the most sophisticated seniors.My Many Colored Days intends to teach early elementary children that it is normal to experience different emotions on different days and even on the same day, which sometimes makes it hard to understand and express yourself. With Johnson and Fancher's atmospheric, large-scale paintings bursting off the pages, Dr. Here is a wonderful way for parents to talk with children about their feelings. Using a spectrum of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals, this unique book does for the range of human moods and emotions what Oh, the Places You'll Go! does for the human life cycle. Seuss saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the 'first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color.' The quest for an artist finally endedafter the manuscript languished for more than two decadesat the paint brushes of husband-and-wife team Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher whose stunning, expressive paintings reveal such striking images as a bright red horse kicking its heels, a cool and quiet green fish, a sad and lonely purple dinosaur, and an angrily howling black wolf. Seuss wrote in 1973, was a letter outlining his hopes of finding 'a great color artist who will not be dominated by me.' The late Dr.

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