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 emotions by using their words, and this book could help them understand that expressing emotions is necessary for communication and to receive the help that is needed.

2) I would recommend this book to the Prekindergartens to Third grade level.

3) I would recommend this book in the unit of Art. This book would be a perfect way for the students to get to learn the names of the colors. I would then, have them mix colors and have them understand that when one mixes colors, the color tends to mix and change to a different color.