A Blue Kind of Day

This is an important book that addresses childhood depression. It is gorgeous to looks at. Tori-Jay Mordey's artwork fills readers up with empathy for Coen's experience of being blue. I appreciated the author's note in the back matter on childhood depression and helping children deal with emotions.......more

Written and illustrated with sensitivity, A Blue Kind of Day addresses depression without minimization. Like Cori Doerrfeld's The Rabbit Listened, a series of suggestions to cheer up are made by a young child's family. However, a breakthrough happens when the family listens with patience and gives s......more

Written by psychologist Rachel Tomlinson, this book is a beautiful, thoughtful look at childhood depression that is clear without ever becoming pedantic. We see the gravity of Coen's sadness, his inability to describe it (something I never thought about happening in young kids with depression), and......more

A Blue Kind of Day is an important book in the canon of children's picture books about mental health. This book deals very specifically with depression and does so with so much grace and dignity. What Rachel Tomlinson does so perfectly in this book is help to establish what depression looks and feel......more

Coen is having a blue kind of day, where he's not interested in any of the activities or coping strategies that his family suggests. It's hard when children are sad or have depression because they don't have words to describe their feelings. This story emphasizes following children's queues. Feeling......more