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We Feel Happy : A fantastic first book of feelings! ISBN: 9781526619914
Abey, Katie
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022
In this happily lively book, reminiscent of Richard Scarry's 'busy' books, we find lots and lots of animals telling us about ten different emotions, along with some ideas of how to cope with them. The emotions are: happy, worried, calm, excited, shy, scared, curious, sad, grumpy, and sorry, and each one has a full two page spread of wonderfully comic animals talking to us in speech bubbles. Some of these are telling us why they are happy or sad or whatever they are feeling, and some of them give us ways of dealing with those feelings. At the end of each spread, there is a cheeky little monkey asking us what we can do about this particular emotion. The illustrations are great fun, full of rainbow colours and humour - or not, depending on which emotion we are being told about, and there are lots of points of discussion as well. This is helped along by two pages of suggestions to parents on how they might approach using the book when sharing it with their children. A really beautiful production that will appeal to both very young and older children.
Age: 3+