I Feel!: A Book of Emotions (I Will!)

by Juana Medina (Author) Juana Medina (Illustrator)

I Feel!: A Book of Emotions (I Will!)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: I Will!

Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator Juana Medina helps young readers to identify how they feel with bold, colorful illustrations and simple text in this paper-over-board picture book, the third book in the I WILL! series.

Do you feel happy? Sad? Calm? Shy? Brave? Proud?

This book provides a way for young readers and the adults in their lives to talk about their feelings and build emotional literary together. Whether dealing with starting school, moving to a new place, experiencing a loss, or another new experience, young readers will have the opportunity to process their emotions about it with the adults in their life.

With bold, playful illustrations and simple text, this picture book focuses on helping young readers build emotional literacy, affirming their emotions, and improving communication skills.

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Kirkus

A concise visual dictionary of feelings, useful for children and their grown-ups. (

School Library Journal

Starred Review

PreS-Gr 3--Everyone struggles with managing the emotions that roil them, but for young children, emotions can be even harder without a way to articulate them. Medina's new book--and the third in her "I Will" series--seeks to help children point to and name 14 different emotions. On each spread, one page contains a single word while the facing page has a colorful, full-page illustration of a child experiencing an emotion. Additionally, in the upper corner of the page with the word, there is a simple drawing capturing just the child's facial expression. Some illustrations show children in a school setting (a "lonely" child eats by herself in a cafeteria), while others take place in the broader world (a "frightened" child shies away from a pool). There are emotions that most everyone is reluctant to experience (e.g., embarrassed, confused) as well as those people revel in experiencing (such as excited or proud). The illustrations depict a diverse group of children and a variety of skin tones; the pairings will elicit conversations, showing the excited child with an artificial leg, and an embarrassed child wearing a hijab. There are only two sentences in the book, placed at the end where they resonate: "All feelings are valid. It is what we do with them that matters." VERDICT Perfect for parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors to share with young children to help them validate, understand, and even regulate their emotions.--Sally A. James

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Juana Medina
Juana Medina, winner of the Pura Belpré Award for her middle-grade series, Juana and Lucas, has had her charming, sensitive artwork likened to that of illustrators such as Sempé and Jules Feiffer. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and a graduate of RISD, where she has also taught, Juana now lives in the Washington, DC, area, with her wife and twin sons.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780358621249
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Versify
Publication date
October 11, 2022
Series
I Will!
BISAC categories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV015010 - Juvenile Fiction | Health & Daily Living | Daily Activities
JUV039140 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
JUV039220 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Values & Virtues
JUV039150 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Special Needs
JUV009080 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Words
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Emotions

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