You Are a Burst of Color takes readers on a journey to explore how different colors might make a child feel. “Feelings are as colorful as the rainbow and change all the time”. Each page is filled with beautiful and detailed illustrations, and young kids are sure to open discussions regarding new emotions that they otherwise wouldn’t have stopped to discuss.

A young child makes sense of her emotions through colors. The illustrations of this book were phenomenal as they aptly represented the colors and emotions of the child. This will be a great read for young children who may have issues expressing their emotions, maybe they will find themselves better represented by the colors. The prose is not the star of the show here, but I think it works as it describes the emotions and lets the colors and images do the talking. Overall, I heavily recommend.

First of all, I am so blown away by the illustration. The art is utterly beautiful.

As for the story itself, I love the concept of using colors to teach children different emotions. I also love how accepting this book is of different emotions. There is no “bad” emotion and it’s important to be able to identify how you feel without passing judgement. I think that’s a great lesson for children.

You Are a Burst of Color is an exploration of feelings and emotions through color. Appropriate for young children, this book would be a great addition to a preschool or kindergarten classroom.

Thank you to Charlesbridge and NetGalley for an ARC of this book. Opinions expressed are my own.

My daughter loved this, short sweet and colourful. She sat and listened to the story and looked at the pictures. An amazing story as well, definitely would read to her again

This is a wonderful children’s book that shows them it is ok and normal to feel a variety of feelings every day and that each day’s feelings may not always be the same. The illustrations are lovely too!

Very cute! We are avid color mobster books and this was very similar vibes, in a good way!
My son is 4 and learning about big emotions has been really helpful for him.
The illustrations are also gorgeous!
A big win for my mom and her littles!

Thank you NetGalley, Sook-Hee Choi and Charlesbridge for the early copy!

What an absolutely lovely book, color coding emotions and helping children learn to recognize emotions and feelings. My daughter loved this book

A beautiful introduction for children to colors and the feelings they can represent. It's a very sweet story with beautiful illustrations and each color being used on it's own with the background being in greyscale. I really liked reading this!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Super cute. I loved this book and sharing it with my kids. So well thought out and impactful for the kiddos.

This gorgeous picture book deals with emotions at a level that young children can access.

I think this will be a great addition to my library, especially as we are adding pre-K this year. I would recommend other elementary libraries add it, as well as public libraries. I also think this would be a great addition to personal collections, to help toddlers better understand their emotions.

Thank you to Charlesbridge and Net Galley for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

This books has some gorgeous illustrations! The story was a little more poetic than I was expecting and I'm not sure it would really draw my little one in. Worth taking a read simply to look at the pictures, though. Beautiful!

This was a beautiful book to read with my three year old. He completely related to feelings and colors, though we didn’t always get the alignment of the color choice with the emotion. We did enjoy the illustrations and the story.

Thank you to NetGalley and Charlesbridge for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.