In My Heart: A Book of Feelings (Growing Hearts)

I adored this book! The illustrations are fun and simple, and the cutout heart that continues throughout the whole book through all the different feelings is a great touch. The book goes through all different feelings a kid might experience, describing what it feels like “in my heart.” It’s very descriptive, and I really think it is able to help kids identify what emotion they’re feeling and come to terms with it. I loved on the page where it describes sadness the author makes sure to say that she won’t feel like this forever; I thought that was a really important thing to note. The book isn’t very complex, but I think that that is what makes this work better. Emotions are complicated to put into words and to comprehend, and show more this book does an outstanding job at simplifying it for kids. show less

A young child explains her many emotions using metaphors. For example, when she feels silly, she is magical like a bunny pulled from a magician's hat with an "abracadabra!" but when she feels sad, it's like a dark cloud is over her head while her heart feels as heavy as an elephant.

This is a beautiful book for talking about feelings with young children to help them process those. It is a mixed of so-called positive emotions like happiness and so-called negative emotions like fear. It will really help to build emotional intelligence with children, especially if an adult includes additional examples of hope, heartbreak, shyness, etc. to help contextualize even more with real-life moments to tie in with the text.

The illustrations are so show more fun and fit the book perfectly. There is a large heart cut-out in the cover that opens to various illustrations of different colors on each page, making the heart appeared multi-layered from the outside and then revealing stars, trees, flowers, and many other images on each page. show less

What a fun, inviting, and captivating read with textural additions through the heart-cut out pages. This book features a young girl as she walks through the way her heart feels as she experiences different emotions. This book encourages children to guess how the girl is feeling as well as helps them become more intuitive to determine how they are feeling as well. Each page ends with "This is when my heart is..." and during a dialogic reading experience with children - children love sharing the emotions they've learned.

This was adorable! It talked about all the huge feelings that kids will experience. It gave a good explanation of how the emotion feels and things the child may do with the emotion.

I liked this book for three main reasons. First, I liked how each feeling that is being described, the Author describes that feeling and relates that feeling to a to an object. For example, the author describes feeling happy and relates feeling happy to a yellow star. Second, I liked how each illustration has a cut out heart in the middle of the book. Each feeling that the Author shares her heart gets smaller and smaller. Therefore, the beginning of the book starts with positive feelings with big hearts and moves to negative feelings with smaller hearts towards the end of the book. For example, when the author describes being happy and brave in the beginning of the book has a big heart cutout. Whereas, when the author describes feeling show more afraid or shy her heart cutout in the end of the book gets smaller and smaller. This shows the reader how your heart is big when your feeling something positive, but your heart gets small when you are having a negative feeling. Third, I liked how throughout the whole story the Author shares with you several types of feeling that you may be feeling, but in the very end the Author ends the story with a question that makes the reader keep wondering about his or her feelings. For example, the story tells the reader several types of feelings that they could be feeling, but then ends the story with “How does your heart feel?”. The big idea of this story was allowing children to understand a variety of feelings that they could potentially be feeling. show less

This story is about all the different feelings we have in our heart. It touches on being happy, mad, hopeful, and everything in between.

This book would be a great to read at the beginning of the school year or even after a tragic event is experienced by a student. If read at the beginning of the school year, it would set the stage that all emotions and feelings will be had and that they are important to be aware of. It would also be appropriate to read if a student or the class as whole experienced something that could bring about a variety of emotions. The book does a good job of explaining different emotions and what may contribute to those feelings. It also explains that all of these emotions are normal to feel.

This book would be show more good for PreK-4th grade show less

A book for 3 to 5 year olds about comparing emotions to real life things to express how you feel. With vibrant illustrations that will engage children and make them interested.