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The Colour Monster
£7.99
A picture book follow-up to The Colour Monster, Anna Llenas’s jaw-dropping pop-up book.
One day, Colour Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows thim what each feeling means through colour.
What is the Colour Monster feeling? And can you help him feel a little less mixed up?
A gentle exploration of feelings for young and old alike.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Templar Publishing (1 Mar. 2016) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 48 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1783704233 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1783704231 |
| Reading age | 2 – 5 years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 25.2 x 0.5 x 24.8 cm |
by Chloe
This is a good book to discuss feelings with a toddler. I will often get it out to read at bedtime on days when I know something has upset my daughter in the day and it gives me the opportunity to ask ‘did you feel sad/angry/scared about anything today?’ And discuss it with her. She’s nearly 3
by Laura
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I bought this book for my daughter’s second birthday and she adores it.
She loves naming the different colours, feelings and completing the little actions along with each, I.e. taking a deep breath, stomping or shouting ‘not fair!’, as we read through the book. It’s really helped her to gain a good understanding of feelings and she does now use the words to describe feelings she and others are experiencing, which is lovely to see.
The illustrations are unique and pleasing too. This isn’t the pop up version, but the illustrations are designed to look like painted cardboard cutouts, which is a refreshing and interesting design choice.
The monster itself isn’t scary in the slightest either.
I particularly like the use of the concepts of ‘colours being mixed up and confused’ and pulling out and labelling each emotion to help the colour monster understand himself and ultimately feel better. All emotions are labelled as being healthy and very normal too, with some comments on how to cope with the tricker emotions. It’s all really good early learning for positive mental wellbeing, which as a psychologist, I definitely have time for.
by James D.
This book was recommended by our sons child day care nursery. It’s amazing for getting them to understand the concept of feelings and emotions. Arrived in very good time, undamaged. Would actually buy this for others as a present, well worth the money.
by Carmen
My twins love it. It’s been particularly helpful with trying to talk about big feelings with one of mine and gives him a nice reference for discussing how he feels when he’s not really sure how to explain himself. It is good for little children.
by Amazon Customer
They use this book in preschools to talk about emotions, my little one loves it and it has helped her lots.
On her very first day of “big children school” a few weeks ago, she used what she learned from the book to explain to me how she was feeling about this big milestone.
It’s teaching little kids emotional competence and I’m so glad we have it!
by Denis Long
Great book to work the emotions with children among many other subjects like colours, new vocabulary, creativity…..
by clare.berry
great book for children
by Denis Long
I have been making monsters for a Charity supplying Therapists working with children.
The Charity provided the knitting pattern but I was interested to see the book and especially the facial expressions.