''My Many Colored Days'' is a children's book written by Theodor Geisel under the pen name
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel ( ;"Seuss" '' Geisel saw his original text about feelings and moods as part of the "first book ever to be based on beautiful illustrations and sensational color".
It was published posthumously in 1996 by
Alfred A. Knopf
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, after Geisel's death in 1991. It features paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. A rhyming story, it describes each day in terms of a particular color which is in turn associated with a specific
emotion
Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiology, neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavior, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or suffering, displeasure. There is ...
. Based on a 2007 online poll, the
National Education Association
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listed the book in its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".