So I think this book does a disservice to children more than teaching them anything about emotions. While that is one way to feel sadness, there are so many others ways to be sad, and so many other behaviors to express sadness. When you're sad, you hide and want to be alone. This book goes so far as to tell children how to experience certain emotions: Telling children that blue is sadness will confuse children who experience blue as tranquility, or power, or curiosity, or any number of other emotions. furthermore, labeling emotions with specific colors doesn't work as a one-size-fits-all solution, since color is a very personal experience people feel very differently about the same color. While it is vital to teach children to identify their emotions, it is just as important to help them understand that it is normal to feel more than one single emotion at a time, even about the same thing/person/idea.
Love the collage-y illustrations of this picture book, but the text has some troubling issues.
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