Staff Review: "My Blue Is Happy" by Jessica Young

Teaching color recognition can be lots of fun. You can use crayons, paint, construction paper, songs, and games to help your child recognize color. But why not use feelings to talk about color, like in the book "My Blue is Happy" by Jessica Young?

Each page of "My Blue is Happy" features a scene saturated in one color, and the little girl narrator shares how a person in her world feels about the color, then explains how she feels differently. "Dad says brown is ordinary/ Like a plain paper bag./ But my brown is special/ Like chocolate syrup . . ./ And a piece of earth/ that's just for me."

What a great way to talk about colors and feelings! Appropriate for grades 1-3.

--Andrea W., H.Q.