The Color Monster: A Story about Emotions

I bought this book for our five-year-old daughter, who had been struggling a little with understanding and expressing her emotions and sometimes keeping things bottled up. What works particularly well with this book is the way it links emotions to colours. Each feeling – happy, sad, angry, calm and scared – is shown as a different coloured version of the Colour Monster, which makes it very easy for children to recognise and talk about how they are feeling. For our daughter this has been genuinely helpful. Being able to point to the colours and the different expressions has helped her explain what mood she is in, and it’s starting to help her deal with those feelings rather than just getting overwhelmed. The illustrations are bright and engaging, and the story is short and simple enough to hold a young child’s attention. It’s also a book that naturally leads into conversations about feelings after you’ve finished reading it. The board book format is sturdy, with thick pages that are easy for younger children to handle. I’ve included a couple of photos so you can see the illustration style and page layout, which are colourful and very clear for children to follow. Overall this is a lovely and genuinely useful book for helping young children understand their emotions, and it’s easy to see why it’s so popular with parents and nurseries. In our case, our daughter sometimes struggled to communicate how she was feeling because the emotions themselves confused her. Being able to relate those feelings to the colours in the book has helped her recognise what she is experiencing and communicate it more clearly instead of just becoming upset or crying.

My toddler is struggling with regulating their emotions so we were recommended this book to assist in their ‘emotion’ journey. We’ve tried different books which have been extremely wordy and he gets bored with them despite loving books. This book is great. It has few words and uses colours to describe feelings. For example ‘this is sadness, it’s gentle like a blue rainy day’ red for anger, yellow for happiness etc. So when I’m feeling happy, I say ‘I’m feeling happy like the yellow colour monster’ which helps him to relate. He’s slowly learning emotions and by relating to the colours and colour monster, it’s made it a lot easier for him to express himself. It’s a small book so easily transported. It’s made a complex topic into a more easily understandable concept.

This book is a good tool for helping young children understand and express their emotions whilst having the fun of reading a book. The illustrations are vibrant and engaging, and the simple language makes complex feelings easy to grasp. My daughter who is 4 can now accurately describe her feelings through colours, which I can understand. The book it’s self is a board book so sturdy and less likely for kids to rip pages etc (great for younger children). It is also small enough to tuck in a bag for travel. There is also a pop out book available which was the one I thought I was buying however that was my error.

This book was recommended to us and our daughter loves it. It helps children to identify and understand their emotions. After reading it, she drew her own colour monster.

This is a nice strong board book which I bought so children of all ages could enjoy. However it's not the full version of the colour monster, which I didn't realise before buying, so if you want the whole content then buy the paperback version, which I have now done in addition to this book.

Fantastic little book for teaching about different emotions. Easy read and lovely illustration. The book came in perfect condition and my son loves it.

I love this book. It's a great shortened version of the original. I use it at home and with the children I work with. They sure can have some very mixed up colour monster days

Brilliant book for toddlers and children to understand and talk about their different feelings by relating them to a colour. Would recommend this to all parents and educators. Lovely illustrations too.

I want to gift this book for every toddler mom out there. My little guy has a lot of big feelings, and he seemed to be having trouble understanding what he was feeling and how to manage them (like EVERY toddler). He had also started hitting when he was feeling mad. This book has helped a ton. It’s given him a framework to start understanding his feelings and be able to label some of them. The book gave him some words to try using to start talking about them. Best of all, the story is really light and playful; because it’s not heavy-handed, it provided a soft way to open the door to conversations about his feelings without shame or judgement. Also, the illustrations are really cool! Buy this book.

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"El Monstruo de Colores" es un libro maravilloso que aborda de manera simple y encantadora las emociones, ayudando a los más pequeños a identificarlas y comprenderlas. A través de su colorido arte y una narrativa fácil de seguir, el libro guía a los niños en un viaje emocional que es tanto educativo como entretenido. La forma en que las emociones se asocian con colores es una herramienta poderosa que facilita el entendimiento y la conversación sobre lo que sentimos. Sin duda, una lectura esencial para cualquier niño, ¡y un gran recurso para padres y educadores!

Adhd suspected in my 4 year old. He has big emotional rollercoasters. But reading the book everyday, watching someone read it on youtube too has made a considerable change in his behavior not only at home but at kindergarten. Even my 2 year old loves it and it helps her too!!