When I'm Feeling Sad

The Feelings Series

by Trace Moroney

Have you ever been so sad that the world seems gray and droopy? Does being sick or hearing a family argument make you want to cry and cry until it floods? The little rabbit knows how it feels to be sad and just what to do to feel better. Read along, and you too might find that a great big hug is all you need to make the sadness go away.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Emotion, Nonfiction

18 pages, Hardcover

First published May 14, 2005

About the author

Trace Moroney is an energetic and dedicated professional with an extraordinary passion for publishing. After many years of being employed in corporate management with international publishers, she found herself in the highly desirable position of being able to follow her heart and establish her own business.

Trace is an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator specializing in children’s books for the international market.

Her best selling series When I’m Feeling Series has been a worldwide success with 1.5 million copies sold, and translated into sixteen languages.


Her latest series The Things I Love Series, released 2009, has been met with extraordinary enthusiasm. This beautifully produced series introduces the concept of love and gratitude, and shows examples of creating positive thought.

Focused on creating ‘books with a conscience’, Trace Moroney embraces the principles of positive psychology - in other words . . . focusing on what is good in the world!

Reviews

[Fátima Filipa (Mimodoslivros) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um livro muito emotivo que as crianças adoram. E com um tema de fácil percepção para as crianças. E as ilustrações estão fantásticas

[Hypatia's Dream · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un tema muy acertado con lenguaje sencillo para que los niños logren identificar y reconocer sus sentimientos, la colección de cuentos de Moroney es genial, vale la pena leer y seguir las historias de este tierno conejito.

[Ietrio · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a superb book. The drawings are nice. And I like the embossed pages and the textures of the cover. Also the story is very important not for the child, but for the adult.

[Rozaini Haji · Rating 5 out of 5]

Last Sunday visiting my nieces and nephew, my niece El Darisa Zuleykha gave me a book for me to read it loud. Darisa is barely 2 years old but she loves books and she loves to listen to story telling. Just like me when I was small.

The book, When I'm Feeling Sad by Trace Moroney is about a little bunny which was sad. This book taught children that it's ok to feel sad and what to do when sadness evolves.

The illustration to the book is cleverly done to show the sadness. Gray colour, windy day with leaves dropping depicted the sadness.

Darisa kept on saying "Rabbit nangis..." while showing the picture of the rabbit with tears in it's eyes. She clearly shown her emphaty to the bunny by patting the bunny in the page. Ah! A child full with emotion.

The best part was at the end of the book, it showed what is the best thing to do to relieve sadness. The bunny went to it's mum to get a hug. When I told Darisa, " Do you want to hug your mummy, Darisa?", she straight away went to hug her mummy. Awwww... That is so sweet.

I find this book helps children (and adult too!) to understand sadness and how to cope with it. When I went through some of the reviews written by readers about this book in Goodreads, a reader wrote that this book helped her little son who suffered from deppression. A really good book to introduce to your small one.

Trace Moroney also wrote a series of books with feeling concept. The tittles to some of the books are :
When I'm Feeling Jealous.
When I'm Feeling Loved.
When I'm Feeling Angry.
When I'm Feeling Lonely.
Will try to find these books later, InsyaAllah.

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favourites of the Feelings series. Moroney helps children understand what it means to feel sad, the kind of thing that makes us sad, and what we can do about it. The main message is that everyone is sad sometimes, it's perfectly normal and "okay", but you don't have to stay that way. There are things we can do to help us feel better, from a hot bath and good music to talking it out with an understanding friend; or just sitting with a friend without having to talk.

[karyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

idc it slayed

[Kaari Perm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nii aus ja tõetruult kirjutatud raamat, mida oma pisikesele inimesele ette lugeda, et suuri tundeid kuidagigi mõista.
Rmt lõpus head näpunäited ka lapsevanematele. 🙂

[Valerie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book for my son, who at the tender age of 8 is suffering from depression.
I read it to him, and at first he wasn't to keen on it as it begins by going through how it feels to be sad, and what things can make you sad. Then it begins to discuss how feeling sad is ok and normal and that everyone feels sad sometimes. Then there are tips on how to cope with feeling sad, and how to help yourself to feel better.
After I read it to him once, he made me read it again, then he wanted to read it to me.
The pictures are gorgeous, the text is simple and easy to understand. It is a very good tool for helping children learn how to express their emotions and understand them. I am now going to buy the rest of the series.

[Tiffany Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book does a good job using color to depict the emotion in the story. The bunny goes through a range of emotions. Somethign tragic happens to the family and they must learn how to cope with the different dynamics. This is a great story for children dealing with death. This story helps children understand that this can happen, and it is ok to go through different stages of emotion. This is a normal reaction and it is important to take the different steps for their health. This is a good, and easy read, but very impactful.

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series of When I’m feeling... was recommended by social worker with a major in psychology for five year old son with global delay and ASD. This is to help with the theory of mind, to read other people’s body language if they are happy, sad or jealous; particularly to help son or individual to recognise their emotions and feelings, with guides to make them feel better (sad/angry)or extend the feeling (happy).

[Josefina Bustos · Rating 4 out of 5]

The colors in this book are often associated with what it feels like to be sad. It gives children a tangible meaning to sadness. It offers suggestions on what to do if a child is feeling sad. It also opens the door for children to learn how to label that feeling. The pictures follow the story evenly.

[Amanda Calegan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book like many of the other books by this author allows students to put their feelings into words and actions. This book is about being sad so the author chose words such as droopy and crying. The illustrations unlike the previous book I read by this author are very dark and sometimes even grayish to represent the sadness that fill the pages.

[Merwan Eal · Rating 1 out of 5]

i still sad im nothnig im just a mistake

[TJ & AJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books are great conversation starters for helping little kids deal with their big feelings. Not one of TJ's favorites though.

[Kit]

Rabbit on the front cover of the edition I read is furry textured 🙂

[Jade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-read

We had some devastating news today. I'm glad we had this book to pull out to help us express what we felt. Everything is going to be okay.

[Noah S · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books are great for teaching children how to manage emotions. Love them

[Tadas Supronas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gera knygutė skaityti vaikams apie jausmus. Gale yra keli klausimai vaikams, kad galėtų įsivardinti savo jausmus :-)

[Lila Danisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Since Max is 2 years old now, I am starting to introduce him deeply about feelings.
This book is the best book to teach him about what is sad.
Through the rabbit character, he can learn about sad.

[Valeria · Rating 5 out of 5]

que bonito cuentooooo🥺🤍

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one also explains the emotion and how to handle it well.

[Erika HerO✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

No pensé que iba a contener un mensaje mas sensible como lo que sientes cuando presencias peleas de seres queridos y la muerte.

[Karin · Rating 4 out of 5]

More good conversation starters.

[Peacegal · Rating 4 out of 5]

There’s something about me and sad bunnies. A bunny just seems to be able to convey sadness more than any other cartoon animal. The presence of a bunny character in When I’m Feeling Sad alone doesn’t make it a winner, but it certainly helps.

Seeing as I’ve spent a good portion of my life feeling sad, I found this to be a wonderful book. It validates children’s feelings and tells them that it’s OK to feel sad. This is a tremendously important aspect; emotions are messy things and our culture actively suppresses them. I feel I was always discouraged from expressing strong emotions as a child, as a result, to this day I hold them inside. (I wish I would have had this book!)

For children, this is a profoundly relatable book. For adults, When I’m Feeling Sad is pretty much a primer on depression.

When I’m feeling sad,
I feel like someone has taken away
All of the colors, and everything
is gray and gloomy and droopy.

When I’m feeling sad, I feel like I could
Cry and cry
And cry soooo much that I make a flood!

I want to crawl into my bed,
pull the covers over my head,
and stay there until the sadness goes away.

Been there, done that. If this were a book for adults, the only thing missing would be a visit to Dr. Rabbit and a prescription for carrot-flavored Prozac.

All right, great book, great illustrations. The only aspect of the book I didn’t like was the pronoun “it” being used to describe the bunny at the book’s conclusion, and the phrase “something dies” to describe a the death of a pet.

[Saifa Begum · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book describes the emotion 'sad' and reasons as to why someone may feel sad. It relates to real life situations where the rabbit is sad, because their mummy and daddy are fighting and because the rabbit is feeling lonely, towards the end it states solutions how to overcome these feelings.
This book is primarily for the key stage 1 and the early years however it can also be implemented with in key stage 2.
It can be read to children who are feeling sad and emotional.

[Debra · Rating 5 out of 5]

fantastic books for children, with beautiful pictures and simple word s to describe feelings... and improve communication....
we have the whole set.... often if one of the kid's is upet with something they wil get out one of the books and get me to read to them and then we talk about whatever happened or whatever is bothering them....

[Jeniann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great little series of picture books that talk about different emotions (there are ones on sad, happy, scared, and angry). My two year loves these and it has made it easier to talk about different emotions and how to best deal with them.

[Alshaimaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need to carry this book everywhere !
Bring the emotions and feelings for children in an easy way.
but It's not just for children:P
great illustration, I can feel the rabbit fur in the cover !!!

THANK YOU DOCTOR :)

[Kerri · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just bought this book and 3 others like it. I really like how they explain to my son about what it means to be scared, sad, angry, and happy. Then it talks about how to deal with these feelings and that it's okay to feel this way sometimes. It does so without being to complicated.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

another cute book about emotions so that small kids can better put into words what they are feeling.