You Are a Burst of Color
Sook-Hee Choi, author
Sook-Hee Choi studied industrial design at Seoul National University and has worked as picture book author and illustrator for more than twenty years. Her titles include To My Child, The Magic Soup, and Tree of Mine. She was selected as the Illustrator of the Year at Bologna Children’s Book Fair for The Picture Map of the World, and was also invited to the Artist of the Year ceremony at the Internationella Bilioteket in Sweden for A Child of the Heaven and the Earth. Her last translated book for Charlesbridge was You Are a Little Seed.
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Publishers Weekly
Color becomes an emotional language in this empathic picture book that demonstrates how feelings “are as colorful as a rainbow and change all the time.” From the “dazzling white” of morning’s blank slate to evening’s “mysterious black,” first-person comparisons relate a day’s worth of feels, many loosely propelled by social interactions, while a mixture of pencil-gray drawings and semi-monochromatic scenes highlights each hue. First, the protagonist finds a friend and feels “tickled pink,” but when that pal joins with another, the speaker cascades through “puzzling purple,” “fiery red” anger, and more until a caregiver’s embrace conjures “a fresh, new blue.” The kaleidoscopic range of sentiments suggests that as feelings ebb and flow, each can be named and processed. The protagonist is portrayed with pale skin and dark hair; background characters are shown with various skin tones.
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-564-2
Ages: 2–5
Page count: 32
7 x 9
Publication date: September 9, 2025