My Feelings Have Colors: Zara's Story (Digital PDF)
Zara does not have the words for what she is feeling yet. She has colors.
Why This Resource Matters
Young children feel everything at full volume long before they can name any of it. Zara gives them a way in, in a story where the child at the center looks like them and the whole thing happens in both English and Spanish.
What Children Will Explore
Naming big feelings through color
That feelings arrive, move, and pass
Feelings can be more than one at a time
Talking to a grown-up about what is happening inside
Seeing a Black girl at the center of her own story
What’s Included
Full bilingual picture book in English and Spanish
Illustrated throughout
Instant digital download (PDF) for printing or reading on screen
Who It’s For
Families, elementary school counselors, preschool and early elementary teachers, and bilingual classrooms.
How to Use It
Read it one on one at bedtime, aloud to a class, or as the opening of a feelings lesson. Come back to the colors whenever a child cannot find the word.

