Today we are learning about the book The Color Monster.
This book is about a child who helps a mixed-up monster sort out its feelings.
Compartmentalization is the child’s strategy, as she urges the googly-eyed monster to pour its feelings into individual glass jars. Each emotion is linked to a color: happiness is yellow; sadness, “gentle and blue like a rainy day”; anger, a violent splash of red; calm “is as light as a green leaf / floating in the wind.” One spread-filling pop-up is devoted to each emotion/color, from clouds with lines of string “rain” to a hammock strung between leafy trees; all the now-full jars regather toward the end with pull-tabs to reveal their contents. There’s one feeling that is not accounted for, though. “What could it be?” puzzles the girl…but opening the final spread reveals the smiling monster radiating scribbly pink hearts, and viewers will have no trouble figuring it out.
This is a lovely book that I share today with your children to help them deal with emotions to help them understand their feelings and emotions better.
