I Feel Sad

by Brian Moses

Part of a series that helps children deal with emotions they experience in their everyday lives, this book describes what it is like to feel sad, as it is experienced by young children.

Genres: Childrens

Paperback

First published November 1, 1994

About the author

Brian Moses has been a professional children’s poet since 1988.. To date he has over 200 books published including volumes of his own poetry such as A Cat Called Elvis and Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses (both Macmillan), anthologies such as The Secret Lives of Teachers and Aliens Stole My Underpants (both Macmillan) and picture books such as Beetle in the Bathroom and Trouble at the Dinosaur Cafe (both Puffin).

Over 1 million copies of Brian’s poetry books have now been sold by Macmillan.

Brian also runs writing workshops and performs his own poetry and percussion shows. To date he has given over 3000 performances in schools, libraries, theatres and at festivals throughout the UK and abroad.

He is also founder & co-director of a national scheme for able writers administered by his booking agency Authors Abroad.

CBBC commissioned him to write a poem for the Queen’s 80th birthday and he was invited by Prince Charles to speak at his Cambridge University teachers’ day in 2007.

A new book of history poems: 1066 & Before That (co-written with Roger Stevens), picture books The Frog Olympics and Dreamer: Saving Our Wild World (OtterBarry Books) and his childhood memoir Keeping Clear of Paradise Street have just been published.

Forthcoming are Python - his first children’s novel, The Waggiest Tails: Dog Poems written with Roger Stevens, and a ‘Best of’ of his poems for younger children.

Reviews

[Aleha Begum · Rating 5 out of 5]

'I feel sad' is a great book to read for a PSHE session, as it addresses issues children may face. It opens up a class discussion and you can ask children the question what do they do to make themselves happy when they are sad? and also ask them what would they do to make someone else happy if they are sad? It creates a unity and gives children the idea that it's alright to feel sad and the discussion as a class can give children strategies to overcome sadness.

[Jenna Mills · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sweet one