How Are You Feeling?

by Marie-Therese Miller

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Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.

How Are You Feeling? is a fun and educational read about identifying emotions for the youngest readers through pictures and simple text by Marie-Therese Miller. Released 7th Feb 2023 by Lerner Publishing, it's 32 pages and is available in paperback, library binding, and ebook formats. 

Identifying and learning how to manage emotions can be frightening and difficult for small children. The author uses the comforting familiarity of the Sesame Street characters to learn emotions and show them along with diverse youngsters (ca 4-8 years of age) for readers to model and learn. 

The message is simple: absolutely everyone has big feelings, and that's OK! Appealing color photos showing kids being happy, sad, excited, etc are followed on the facing pages by Sesame Street muppets explaining what makes *them* feel happy, sad, or excited. There is no judgement or shaming whatever. Seeing and learning emotions in a safe way makes it easier to cope and understand when real situations arise which are probably outside the control of the children reading this appealing little book.

Five stars. This would be a superlative choice for public or school library acquisition, for gift giving, for the child's home library, as well as for professional settings such as therapy practices, counselors, kindergartens, doctor's offices, and similar. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.