Feelings

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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication Date
[1984]
Language
English

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This classic picture book from beloved author-illustrator Aliki is a great way to explore feelings with younger kids, whether at home or in the classroom. Happy, sad, shy, excited—how do you feel? No matter the emotion, Feelings explores it—and helps children understand and express their own feelings.

Best-selling author Aliki uses a child-friendly cartoon style to build empathy and awareness in young readers—and to help them find appropriate ways to handle their feelings. Short, funny comics show how children might feel in different situations—at a birthday party, when a beloved pet dies, on the first day of school, and more.

A timeless classic ideal for sharing. 

"Children often have difficulty articulating emotions. That fact is the underpinning for Aliki's catalog of feelings, be they happy, sad, or somewhere in between." —Booklist

"A delightful book." —New York Times Book Review

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ISBN
9780812447798
068803831
9780590441988
9780688038328
068806518

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Kirkus Book Review

Unmistakably: I'll Be You and You Be Me in color--and, alas, flatter, less inspired. But in these pages of pictured dialogues, episodes, and whatever--including just plain pictures and picture-strips--there are multitudinous illustrations of feelings that youngsters will recognize and presumably respond to. ""WE HAVE A NEW GIRL IN CLASS,"" for instance, gives us a solitary tot and a descending column of miserable thoughts--""I'd like to hide. They're all staring at me. . . . I wish I could fall through a crack in the floor""--and alongside the onlooking children's heads below, their words and thoughts: ""She looks shy""; ""You'd feel shy, too, if you were standing up there."" ""She looks nice."" Then, in a side-drawing (the kind Krauss/Sendak used for asides), there's a smidgen of plot: the little girl who thought ""She looks nice,"" speaks to the newcomer: ""Hello. My name is Patricia."" Aliki is a conceptualizer and storyteller, where Krauss was a poet/dramatist, and the difference is evident throughout the book. There's a pastoral landscape, looking rather like John Burningham, labeled ""feeling quiet""; there's a girl in a room crowded with toys, who pronounces herself ""BORED."" (Says one little birdie to another: ""She sounds lonely to me."") There's a child's version of a New Yorker cartoon--a youngster peers from backstage into a huge, dark auditorium: ""You're next, Joanna. Don't be nervous."" There's a page on which a little boy mimes different feelings (angry, sad, proud) for a little girl to guess--something that Margaret Wise Brown once thought of having Thurber do. There's at least one story, the six-part ""Birthday,"" that rings amusing, explicit changes on feelings (and has as much substance as many a whole book). Perhaps children accustomed to thinking and talking about feelings will take this all as a matter of course--an outcome both desirable and regrettable. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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