A Feeling is a Colour | Aoife Greenham

A Feeling Is A Colour is a picturebook with peep-through holes and a spinning-wheel. Developed in part with funding from Arts Council England, this project gently helps a child to make the connection between colour and emotions. When an emotion is too tricky to find a word for, maybe a colour will take its place. By spinning the wheel, a child can show how they are feeling, even when they can't find the words.

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A textured paper collage of a little girl peering into a reflective pool. Fish are swimming in the pool, and we can see the reflection of birds in the ripples of one of the fish. There is a peep-hole in the design of the page, and this lines up with the reflection of the little girls face. In the peep-hole we can see the colourful spinning wheel for a child to cycle through, to explore their feelings.

The main girl character squatting down with a little ladybird in her hand, on a white background. In the right hand bottom corner there is another peep-hole for a child to explore their feelings.

A page of character studies of our main girl character. She squats and eats a pink ice cream. She looks at a little ladybird. She has pink fairy wings and gloves on, a pair of pink antennae, and paints butterflies on an easel. She peers down at a ladybird who is opening their wings. She sits on the ground and plays with a toy dinosaur and toy car.

Watch the interactive dummy book