The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
Appropriate Age Range:
What this book is all about:
The Way I Feel is a fun and colorful book of emotions! This book honors all feelings and helps children better connect the feeling word to the emotion through its animated and bold illustrations.
Why you might want to read it:
This book helps children learn to identify and understand a wide range of emotions which ultimately leads to greater emotional self-regulation and expression.
3 questions for you to ask your children after reading it:
Help them fill in the following sentence: I feel ____ when_____.
When have you seen this feeling in a show or movie you watch?
The girl in the story shared several different emotions she has felt, are there any you haven't heard of before? Help facilitate discussion to expand their understanding of this emotion through providing examples and revisiting those pages.