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Category: Emotions
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Review: One of Those Days by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Rebecca Doughty
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Review: Grandpa’s Stories by Joseph Coelho & Allison Colpoys
A young girl and her grandpa are best friends and they love to do lots of things together. With each season and adventure, the young girl states how if all the world were that adventure she would always do it to keep her grandpa around forever. However, one day the girl’s grandpa died. She must […]
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Review: I Used To Be Afraid by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
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Review: Maybe Tomorrow? By Charlotte Agell & Ana Ramírez
Elba the elephant has a big dark block that she has been dragging around for a long time. The block is very heavy and makes her walk very slowly. Norris the alligator dances everywhere he goes. One day Elba is sitting on her block when Norris dances up to her surrounded by butterflies and asks […]
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Review: The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
One day, Taylor decides to build something unique and extraordinary. Except once he’s done his masterpiece gets knocked down by crows. Taylor is devastated by this loss. His animal friends all try to comfort him in their own ways as he grieves. Out of all of his friends, only the Rabbit chose to listen. Read […]
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Review: The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon by Matthew Burgess & Fiona Woodcock
Curmudgeon definition: a bad-tempered, difficult, cranky- person; a grouch. Now, how do you budge an unbudgeable curmudgeon? A young girl must figure out how to get rid of the unbudgeable curmudgeon. She tries everything including fudge brownies! But he won’t budge, leaving her out of ideas until she decides to join him. This book explores feelings of grumpiness and what to do about it when you are dealing with a grumpy person or your own feelings of grumpiness. The illustrations are very well done, and help to show a sibling rivalry while normalizing grumpy feelings and coping mechanisms. This story also shows how this feeling may come and go. Having the child turn into a monster when crabby better allows the young reader to better understand their grumpy feelings. This story is great for the reader who may be feeling cranky or difficult and doesn’t always know why.
Resources:
A great resource to get teaching guides for different ages for this book and topic! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:unbudgeable%20curmudgeon
Reviews! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40640806-the-unbudgeable-curmudgeon
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Review: I’m Sad by Michael Ian Black & Debbie Ridpath Ohi
A potato, a flamingo, and a young girl. Flamingo is sad, but they all have experienced the emotion of sadness at some point! What matters is what they do to cheer themselves up. Wait, but, what if it doesn’t work? Then what?? Is it okay to just be sad? These three friends must work together […]
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Review: The Red Tree by Shaun Tan
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Review: The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen & Dan Hanna
A fish is always grumpy and then gets happy
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Review: Happy Right Now by Julie Berry & Holly Hatam
What would you need to be happy? A unicorn? For everyone to tell you how much they love you? When you’re no longer sick? What if you were happy right now!
The young girl in this story says she will only be happy if that is the case. But then she remembers she could be happy right now. The end of the book talks about how sometimes being happy isn’t an option and that’s alright. This book serves as a good reminder to whoever is reading that being happy with where you’re at is always a good thing, but it also can be good to just feel as you are. This book has beautiful drawings and depicts a young black girl as the main character. Though the childs black race is not specifically mentioned and it is important for normalizing diversity in children’s books. Great for the reader who may be struggling with feelings and feeling down or not quite themselves.
If you like this book you may like:
Feelings Ninja by Mary Nhin
I Choose to Try Again by Elizabeth Estrada
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Review: The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
One day, the Color Monster wakes up very confused and doesn’t know how he feels. The young girl decides to help him separate his emotions, demonstrated with colors, and put them into jars to determine what he feels. Through this strategy they sort through each emotion and what it feels like. For each emotion, the book talks about things that one may enjoy doing or not enjoy doing while feeling this emotion. Doing this is a very easy to understand, relatable way for children to grasp the idea of emotions/feelings. The use of a monster is also a fun way to explain emotions. The artwork is well done and expertly matches the tone of the story with child-like illustrations and color choices. Each emotion also is given its own color which can potentially assist children with emotional literacy. Great for the reader who is learning how to separate and understand emotions and feelings.
If you like this book you may like:
Happy Right Now by Julie Berry
The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon by Matthew Burgess
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