Yesterday I Had the Blues (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))

Summary:
This is a book about an African American boy who describes how he feels each day and his family life by colors. It has a very nice rhythm feel and also seems like a poem.

My Reaction:
This would be a good way to have children who are young learn to describe the way they are feeling.

Classroom Extensions:
1. I think this would be a good book to read after the kids have a bad day. A lot of children don't know or aren't allowed to express their feelings.
2. You could also read this and then have the children color a picture of themselves or a family member and color them like the boy described his family.

Great book with excellent, colorful illustration. Teaches children that we all go through different emotions different days. They also assign emotions to different colors. ( )

This book is about a little boys family who all feel different emotions each depicted with a different color.From having the blues to having the indigo's.This is quite a good book to show as an example of color and emotion association. ( )

This book is about a little boy that describes his family with different emotions along with colors. It kind of gave me a jazzy feel while reading this book. The illustrations are very bright and colorful. ( )

A little boy describes the different emotions of himself and his family members using colors. The illustrations represent the feelings using the colors that he says. If had the blues- the pictures were blue, the greens- then the pictures were green, etc. This is a bool to show the connection between feelings and colors, and also that no matter how sad, mad, happy, etc- family alone gives you a great feeling that is golden! ( )