The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions by Anna Llenas
Title: The Color Monster Author: Anna Llenas Illustrator: Anna Llenas Genre: Fiction, Paper Engineer Book Major Awards: Long Listed for the North Somerset Teacher's Book Award Picture Book Category Ages: 4-8 Years old Summary: The color monster wakes up feeling confused, and he does not know why. So a girl tries to separate his colors and tries to make him understand his feelings. For every color that the girl separates, the color monster begins to understand one emotion. For instance, the color yellow meant happiness. The color blue meant sadness and loneliness. The color black meant fear and so on. Now, that the color monster understood what each emotion meant, the girl tells him to rest. In the end, the monster loved the girl. Book Evaluation: 1) I would recommend this book to my students because this book would be perfect for the younger students to understand what their emotions mean. Sometimes, elementary students do not know how to express their emo...
