The Way I Feel

I really liked this book for a few reasons. First, I think this book is a good tool to use when trying to simplify more complex emotions. Things like jealousy or frustration can be hard for younger children to grasp. However, I think this is a great book for children even in pre-school. Second, I like that this book ends with saying that all of our emotions are different, but they're still "a part of me." I think that is a good way to validate the way children feel, which brings me to my final opinion. "The Way I Feel" both explains and validates that even the "unhappy" feelings are normal and acceptable using wonderful illustrations, a strong voice, and good examples to make each emotion more relatable to young children.

The Way I feel goes through various feels one may feel in their day to day lives. It teaches children about their emotions, emotions such as jealousy, silliness, and sadness. I think it is a great illustration that is amazing in this book because the colors on the page are based on emotion. For example, people tend to connect blue to sadness so on the page about sadness the primary color is blue. The primary color on the Happiness page is yellow.

The title explains it all. Its a vibrant color book that explores the different faces/actions that a child could feel. I think its a great way to introduce to children who aren't quite sure how to express their emotions. it helps broaden their knowledge on expressing themselves.
Age: 3-8
Source: Google Books

This book was awarded: First Place for Publishers Association of the West's 18th Annual Western U.S. Book Design

This is a cute book which helps children identify their emotions. With colorful images that match the word connotating the emotion, I recommend this book to parents, especially those children who have a difficult time controlling their emotions. The simpliciting might help children laugh out loud at the image depicting the emotion, and therefore allow the child not feel ovewhelmed when they are angry, sad, silly, excited, jealous, proud, disappointed, scared, happy, thankful, shy, or bored.

Janan Cain writes an excellent picture book that takes a walk through different emotions. Each page has a different emotion on it with a very matching illustration. The language is very rhythmic and coincides with the illustrations to give an actual portrayal of the emotions that it is describing. This a great book for all children. The language and the illustrations help you feel the emotions that are being described enabling the children to connect with the book. It could also help to be a starting point for talking about how to recognize different emotions. This might enable the Teacher to start teaching positive strategies for handling all the different emotions.

In content, mood, and tone, illustrations mirror the feeling on each page: silly, sad, happy, disappointed, angry, frustrated, thankful. A really good, simple way to introduce and talk about words for feelings.

This book takes children through pages of different emotions. Aside from mentioning these emotions, they also talk about different activities that may evoke those feelings, such as a thunder storm leading to being scared. The book also rhymes.

I thought the rhymes were catchy and cute. The different emotions were vast and explained perfectly for a small child. Rather than comparing emotions to that of what would cause an adult to feel them, but they wrote from a child's perspective. So the causes of emotions were much more innocent and simple and I thought it made a very good book for the intended audience.

This book is excellent for teaching emotions. Small children like kindergartners are often confused with what they feel, what show more something causes them to feel, or what each emotion is. This book, accompanied with some pictures not only describes some causes for the emotions, but also portrays the causes. The rhyming is also catchy as well, and will help to promote better understanding of rhyming. This book is a fun way to keep the children entertained, as well as being a fun way to teach them about emotions. You could play games with them about emotions, showing faces that are often associated with those emotions and having them guess what emotion it is is one fun game that they will surely enjoy! show less