Please don’t get this book just because you want something to teach your 2-6yo about emotions. I like many pages in this book, I do think it’s silly at times and I also like the “face wheel” in the back.

However, I do have a problem with the depiction of a 6yo bringing 4 apples and sitting at her desk pining for her teacher “Mark’s” attention… with an image of the teacher surrounded by white light as if he is an idol. It’s very creepy. Other reviews mention the girl walking a runway and a male audience member saying “yummy,” I did not see that, but I also didn’t keep the book…

I know 2 teachers from my school district growing up who were charged with sexually assaulting students. It’s not a joke and there are a million other books about emotions that do not involve crushes on teachers. No child at any age should be exposed to normalizing fantasizing about adult men.

I also really agree with others who’ve commented that it talks about emotions, but nothing about being responsible for emotions or learning to control them.

I almost always steer clear of books written by celebrities, but given the raving reviews of Curtis's writing abilities, I decided to give one of her works a try. Boy, am I happy I did! There is a lot to learn from this book, the rhymes are Super cute and the illustrations were very stimulating to my 5 year olds. I'll be purchasing the rest of her books for sure

Quirky illustrations show how our emotions change day by day. Small children can learn a lot about feelings from this book, what they are called and how they may look. it seems the mood wheel add on promised in my copy of the book is missing. The young girl in the story is just like you or me and she shows many feelings form one day to the next and she's right. We might rather feel some ways than others but feelings are a part of us from deep inside and whatever we feel about something at the moment is okay.

I am loving the entire collection of books written by Jamie Lee Curtis. Let's face it, parents: how many kids books are there in your child's library that you are actually interested in reading? How much Clifford or Maisy can one adult really stand? Thankfully, Curtis' books are entertaining and meaningful for kids and adults alike...so slog through the fifth reading of Dora and know you have something to look forward to with Jamie Lee Curtis.

Today I read this to my second graders to prompt a discussion about feelings. It has some good vocabulary words for my ESL students (“freckles” comes to mind now). They loved that we could change the eyes and mouth at the end to show different moods too.

Great rhyming book about different moods. I like how the story describes more complex feelings like encouraged and joyful and how the author makes them all equally good. the illustrations are very colorful and quite well descriptive.

This Book is an excellent book for social-emotional lessons. It teaches children about different moods and emotions that everyone has like excited, sad, or angry. The Illustrations are very attractive and visually appealing. The book has a lot of vocabulary to teach children how to express emotions using rhyming words.

Okay... I HAVE A NEW FAVORITE BOOK!!! This is a great book that not only has rhyming words but introduces a variety of diffrent moods and feelings other than the basic happy, sad, and angry. This book uses great descriptive words and explains why the cute little girl is feeling the diffrent moods that she feels. Not to mention the wonderful, fun, and detailed pictures on each page. I have to get this book right away. I wish this was not my first time reading this. I cannot wait to read this book to my class. This book also has a fun interactive back page in which children can change the little girls eyes and mouth according to her mood. The back page is also great for matching words because you have to match the top word (mood) with the bottom word. Oh, and I love, love, love the cat (hahaha).

Extension Activity: I will create a chart that is titled: "How do you feel today?". The chart will also have diffrent sections labled, happy, excited, cranky, angry, silly, and sad along with a small picture of a face showing each feeling. After reading this book, I will allow the children to come up to the chart one by one and write their name under how they are feeling. I will help the children that cannot write their names yet.

The illustration is very colorful and cute. There are lots of vocabularies words to introduce to children. Children will identify many emotion and understand everyone has many feelings. It is good for the younger children to second grade children.

I've been using this book to teach for years. I love it completely.

Little ones need to learn that it is ok to have very different moods from sad to happy to anxious to lonely and that that is ok for them to feel that way.

This book does a great job of highlighting 8 common moods that little ones often have.

Read again on March 4, 2014.

I use this book in a classroom group where I try to teach kids how to identify feelings. I think it does a good job of giving kids language around feelings. My only complaint is that there are parts of this book that don't seem to reflect the lives of the black and brown kids with whom I work.