{{Short description|Book by Dr. Seuss}} {{Infobox book | | name = My Many Colored Days | title_orig = | translator = | image = MyManyColoredDaysBookCover.JPG | caption = | author = Dr. Seuss | illustrator = Steve Johnson<br/>Lou Fancher | cover_artist = | country = USA | language = English | series = | genre = Children's literature | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf | pub_date = March 1, 1996 | media_type = Print (hardcover, board book) | pages = 32 | isbn = 0-679-87597-2 | dewey = [E] 20 | congress = PZ8.3.G276 My 1996 | oclc = 164575524 | preceded_by = The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss | followed_by = Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! }} {{Portal |Children's literature}}
'''''My Many Colored Days''''' is a children's book written by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It features animals representing different emotions on different days. These include a horse, flamingos, a seal, a wolf, an anteater, a bee, a fish, and a bird.
Accompanying a manuscript Geisel wrote in 1974 was a letter outlining his hopes of finding "a great color artist who will not be dominated by me".<ref name=ville>{{cite web |url=http://www.seussville.com/books/book_detail.php?isbn=9780679875970 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223095837/http://www.seussville.com/books/book_detail.php?isbn=9780679875970 |archive-date=2014-02-23 |title=My Many Colored Days {{!}} Dr. Seuss Books {{!}} SeussvilleR}}</ref> 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".<ref name=ville />
It was published posthumously in 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf, 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. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book in its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".<ref name=NEA2007>{{cite web |url= http://www.nea.org/grants/13154.htm/ |title= Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children |author= National Education Association |year= 2007|accessdate=August 22, 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== ''My Many Colored Days'' Book Review Teaching for Change (2021) by Paige Pagan: https://socialjusticebooks.org/my-many-colored-days/
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Category:Books published posthumously Category:American picture books Category:Books by Dr. Seuss Category:1996 children's books Category:Alfred A. Knopf books
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