My Many Coloured Days

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Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book in its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Seuss's youngest concept book is now available in a sturdy board book designed especially for his youngest fans. Adults continue to be complicit with societal labels around color ranging from religious conceptions of black as evil and white as pure, to gendered labels such as blue representing boys and pink representing girls, and then they pass those ideas onto children. I recommend the book Black Is a Rainbow Color as a means to both acknowledge how the color black is loaded with historical baggage, but is also a strong color that reflects a powerful culture as well.

My Many Colored Days Book Review Teaching for Change (2021) by Paige Pagan: https://socialjusticebooks. Dark colors represent emotions ranging from anger to sadness, while light colors represent emotions like happiness. This book is a wonder because it helps put emotions and moods into simple color terms the kids can grasp, helping them process and move on. I'm reading it with my 3year old and the no pressure no drama style means some days she wants to talk about feelings in the book and other days she'd rather just list the animals illustrated inside - and that's perfect for us as it provokes thought and discussion rather then force feeding information. In 1993, a study was conducted on children’s emotional associations with colors and found that they had an early affinity with bright colors, having positive emotional connotations, and adversity with dark colors, having negative emotional connotations.I bought a copy because I was already familiar with it from the past having read my bros one when he was younger and he threw his copy out.

An innovative concept book that introduces children to colours, feelings and all the fun of Dr Seuss. My Many Colored Days, published in 1996, reflects conversations within child psychology at the time. There needs to be a shift from color preference, asking children questions like “What is your favorite color?Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies: The Divergent Paths of Racial Innocence” in Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights , by Robin Bernstein, NYU Press.