This book was recommended on our last class discussion by Marissa Cantrell. This book was recommended for ECE students in in the primary grades. I agree with this age group. This was an awesome book for social emotional learning. This book does an awesome job of stating/naming emotions and describing them through simple words and detailed illustrations. The font even changes to reflect the feeling being described. This is a great read aloud book for primary aged children. There is so much in the text and illustrations to discuss and describe as students learn about their big feelings. The teacher can even change inflections, voices, and facial expressions to reflect each emotion. The book ends by saying that the emotions "... are all apart of me." This is a great way for the teacher to open discussion about how it is okay to have feelings. Overall I would definitely recommend this for your classroom library, especially for primary grades.

The Way I Feel is a wonderful book that incorporates different aspects of poetry to discuss all of the many feelings we have. This book is a fantastic resource for helping kids understand their own feelings as well as the feelings of those around them. We can learn about a variety of feelings and emotions throughout the book, including silly, scared, disappointed, happy, sad, angry, thankful, frustrated, shy, bored, excited, jealous, and proud. The illustrations in the book help to identify what each feeling may look like and helps us put specific words to those feelings. My favorite part of the book was near the end, because it explained how feelings come and go, and how they are all a part of who we are. I believe that this is an extremely important message for younger children to hear because emotions can be very overwhelming and confusing for them but understanding that everyone has feelings and that it is normal for us to experience a variety of emotions can definitely help them when experiencing these types of feelings. Overall, I really enjoyed this book and wish I could have read it as a child because I believe dealing with emotions as a kid can be quite challenging at times, but this book helps to explain those emotions in a way that is both entertaining and understandable.
I believe this picture book would be helpful and beneficial to students in the lower elementary grades. I would highly recommend reading this book to a kindergarten class, perhaps at the start of the school year, because kindergarten is a big step for kids, and it comes with a lot of emotions that they may need help dealing with. I think this would be a wonderful book to read aloud to the class, and if you are using it in a first or second grade class you could even have them read the book out loud with you. This book encourages students to make connections with the emotions and feelings described in the text, which is beneficial to them because it enhances their engagement and interest in the story. This, I believe, provides students with several opportunities to have important discussions about their own emotions and experiences. I believe it would be beneficial for students to be able to share some of their personal experiences and feelings related to the book by either drawing about them or sharing them with the class if they feel comfortable doing so. I'd like to use this book in my future classes, especially when teaching students about the various aspects of poetry. Rhyme is used a lot throughout the text, and I think it would be fun to first introduce what rhyme and rhyming words are to students and then when reading the book, you can allow students to try and point out the different words that rhyme.

Cute book about feelings. There are rhyming words and emotion words surrounded by context clues. Great colorful illustrations. I would use this book for early elementary age children to teach about feelings.

This book doesn't really tell a story, but it goes through a lot of words expressing emotions that children might feel. Each page showcases a different emotion. For example, a girl says that she's disappointed when her friends can't play with her. She says she feels shy when she sees a stranger. The illustrations are colorful and cute, and the children's facial expressions match the emotions. This book would be useful when doing a "feelings" theme, but it doesn't have the impact of a well-written story. It goes along with the idea that children need to use words and it gives them words for different situations. This book could lead to discussions about what makes children feel angry, happy, frustrated, silly, etc.

This book is great for talking about and learning how to identify feelings, particularly with young children in kinder and first grade. There are great illustrations attached to represent the different emotions and I love that the colors used on each page contribute to that feeling as well. This would also be a great text to talk about rhyming as there are short 1-2 sentence phrases that make it easy to pull those rhyming words out for young children. There is also additional vocabulary that can be discussed and you can use this is as a starting point for an SEL lesson and have students brainstorm other emotions they may feel.

The Way I Feel is a non-fiction picture book that beautifully describes and illustrates the different emotions that we have. Whether happy, mad, excited, jealous, sad, or even tired, we all feel these different emotions.

I loved this book, and it is one of my childhood favorites! I remember this book being on my shelf at home, and I loved the pictures! The illustrations in this book are beautiful, and the colors always match the mood of the emotion being portrayed.

I would use this in an elementary classroom to teach children about the different emotions. As the teacher, you could talk through the different emotions, and even ask the students what makes them feel a certain emotion. Though simple, it really is so cute and is a fun way to compare and contrast our different emotions!

If your child doesn't understand why they are sometimes happy and occasionally sad this sturdy board book will help them understand their feelings. As they navigate the world around them it's important for your child to understand the emotions that happen within their bodies. Bright cheery illustrations depict emotions like anger, sadness, being excited and more. The back pages share insight and suggestions for parents on how to engage their children regarding emotions and how they feel when something happens. This is a great way to teach communication of emotions with toddlers.

A colorful and expressive book that helps kids recognize and name their emotions. Each page focuses on a different feeling—like happiness, sadness, frustration, and excitement—using fun rhymes and bold, exaggerated illustrations that perfectly capture each emotion. The playful language makes it engaging for young readers, while the message encourages self-awareness and emotional expression. It’s a fantastic book for sparking discussions about feelings and helping children learn that all emotions are normal and okay to feel.

This is a children's book that shows different emotions like happiness, anger, and sadness. It uses simple words and bright pictures to help kids understand and talk about how they feel. It's a fun way for children to learn about emotions and how to express them. This book won 2008 Creative Child Magazine’s “Book of the Year” award. I would use this book for grades prep-2nd. I would use this book for a lesson about emotions and I would start by identifying what your face would look like for each emotion. The children would share some things that would make them happy, sad, mad, etc. We would then make a class feelings chart to help the children to identify what they are feeling and handle it in a healthy way.

Each two page spread deals with a different emotion. I have a personal bias against sing-songy verse but most young children will related to the descriptors of the feelings. Pictures do a pretty good job of conveying the emotions being described.

This contemporary realistic fiction story is a fantastic took for teaching feelings. The story is told in a straightforward, almost list-like format, but it touches on a wide range of emotions that go beyond the typical "happy, sad, angry" that we tend to focus on with children. Each emotion gets a brief little poem that defines/labels the feelings we may experience during each one. I love that these are brief snippets with enough detail to make it clear what the person is feeling but not so much that it would go over the heads of younger children or cause them to lose interest.

I find that this story is excellent for sparking discussions about our feelings. Every page gets its own feeling, so there is plenty of opportunities to pause and talk about when we have felt that way, why, and what we should do when we feel that way. I also love that it includes more complicated feelings such as frustration and jealousy. Sometimes it's hard for smaller kids to really put into words why they feel the way they do, so these little depictions can be really helpful for naming those emotions and helping them understand how to manage them.

The illustrations are perfect. They match the words perfectly, and are vivid and eye-catching. I love that there is a variety of people including various ages, genders, and ethnicities. These illustrations help make it easy for any child to see themself in this story, making it a great addition to any classroom library with younger children.

This story is available in paperback, hardcover, board book, and via Kindle.

This book describes a lot of feelings/emotions that children may have from time to time. After reading this book, children will come to understand that their feelings are neither "good" or "bad;" it's just the way they feel and being able to identify them and connect the words to the emotions. Also, this book will help children put a name (or word) to their feelings/emotions. When children know that adults are concerned with the way they are feeling, they develop a sense of belonging as well as them feeling valued.