When I'm Feeling Angry

The Feelings Series

by Trace Moroney

Have you ever been so angry that you felt like you could explode? Does being teased or wrongly blamed for something make you want to stomp and run and kick and scream? The little rabbit knows how it feels to be angry and just what to do to feel better. Read along, and you too might find that a big, deep breath is all you need to make the anger go away.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Emotion, Fiction, Animals

18 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 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

[Darya Silman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Title in English: When I'm Feeling Angry.

In contrast to the first book (anxiety) that we read with my son (9), this one wasn't so helpful. Isolating oneself doesn't help with anger: it keeps boiling inside. We did the exercise at the end of the book and learned new words in Estonian.

For non-Estonian children, the book is an ideal start for reading in Estonian: the language is simple, and there is not much text.

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

Um livro muito bom para as crianças e que passa a mensagem às crianças que é normal a zanga e a revolta. Faz parte da vida assim como as perdas, o falhar e temos de saber lidar com este sentimento e ultrapassar esta etapa. A vida não é feita sempre de sorrisos mas também de algumas dificuldades que nos despertam a zanga mas temos de saber lidar com isso e conseguir contornar essa parte da melhor forma que conseguirmos.

[Gregoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un bonito cuento, que demuestra lo que le sucede al protagonista cuando está enfadado y ésto es algo por lo que la mayoría pasamos algunas veces.
Lo bueno es encontrar un lugar tranquilo y respirar para que el enfado se marche.🤩🤭

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is cute and educational for both parents and kids. I love him sitting with his dad talking about stuff.

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Moroney book dealing with feelings, but not the best in my opinion. It takes more than a few deep breaths to calm a rage, much less a full-blown tantrum, and the kid I read this with agreed with me--sometimes you need to cool down before you talk about what's got you so upset. Otherwise, some kids will just continue to yell and get agitated.

There are some good situations evoked, but we agreed she left out some causes of anger, such as someone who constantly wants their own way, or just getting up on the wrong side of the bed. Which happens, to kids and grownups alike. Most valuable tip: it's one thing to have your feelings hurt, it's another to take it out on those around you.

[Liliana Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

É sem dúvida um bom livro para crianças, explora as suas emoções com um coelhinho que se sente como elas. Recomendo bastante.

[Hélène · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple, bien imagé! Adapté pour un enfant à partir de 2 ans. Mon fils aime bien et a bien reconnu l’émotion!

[Graciela Gonzalez · Rating 5 out of 5]

This review is for the Spanish version. This is a great book for Spanish pre-schoolers. The book demonstrates what kind of things gets the character angry. It allows them to understand and explore the different emotions children may feel when they are angry. In addition, they are able to relate to the inappropriate ways the character feels like doing, but instead the character try to cope with anger by doing things that helps the character feel better. The story allows the child to understand that it’s okay to be angry but it is not okay to hurt someone because you are angry. What I like about this book is that it offers effective ways to cope with your anger. Once the appropriate ways are implemented, the character feels much better. This book will allow you to discuss the different things that get your child angry and what they feel like doing at the moment. In a classroom, you could have the students make an angry face, and act out some common reactions to anger (that your class identifies such as screaming, stomping, etc.) and end with a breathing technique (or any other relaxation technique and identify it as appropriate). Since feelings influence behavior, teaching and modeling appropriate behavior will have long- term benefits.

[Jessica Eady · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this book as part of my PSHE planning for social behaviour regulation it has a clear message running throughout the story. It is relatable for younger children as they may have been in similar scenarios before. When it comes to the illustrations, some children may find it beneficial to see a visual representation as they find it difficult to express their feelings so using examples and images to represent feelings like a volcano about to explode could support their future self-regulation and explaining of feelings.
The end moral of the story, taking deep breathes, talking to someone familiar and moving away from the situation instead of the initial outburst of wanting to stomp and kick toys shows that there is a better alternative to the situation and modelled what is expected of children.
Especially in a new classroom environment, with friendships forming and behaviour changing it can be difficult for children to manage their feelings. Having modelled behaviour even through stories will support children's self-regulation.

[Juliette Hernandez · Rating 5 out of 5]

When reading this book I thought to myself, "Wow, they have a book on this topic." You don't really see books that describe anger. This book describes it completely. With the help of the pictures it shows you how it feels to be angry and describes the way you feel physically and emotionally. Throughout the book it shows you the different things that makes the bunny angry/mad. It shows you how his anger affected those around him and how he needed to calm down to make everything okay again. This book shows you ways to calm down like how to breathe in and out slowly so your anger can just melt away. This is so helpful for a child to learn how to control their anger and to show them that yeah, its okay to be angry, but you need to learn how to not hurt others when you are. Remember to think about everyone else's feelings too.

[Mine💗 · Rating 4 out of 5]

¿Qué puedo decir? Me encantó, es un libro que recomendaría muchísimo a los niños, y sobre todo a las personas que tienen hijos. La mayor parte del tiempo los padres no suelen ocuparse de la salud mental de sus hijos, lo cual desde a muy temprana edad debe ser una prioridad, ya que, al crecer y sobre todo en la adolescencia suele haber muchas dificultades. Enseñarles a los niños desde pequeños acerca de sus sentimientos es muy importante y hay diferentes herramientas para hacerlo; una de ellas la lectura.

Me gustó la manera de abordar el enojo/enfado, el entender porque nos sucede y que podemos hacer.

“No es malo estar enfadado. Pero si lo es dejar que mi furia haga daño a otros.”

[Sarah Gunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This entire series by Trace Moroney is great, but "When I'm Feeling Angry" is the one I tend to read most often with my Kinders. Sometimes as a group, more frequently just one-on-one with a child who is having a rough time with big emotions and needs to hear that their feelings are valid.

Self-regulation begins with emotional literacy, and this book equips children with the language they need to understand and respond to anger.

An absolute must for a Kinder classroom.

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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]

Vibrant pictures draw the reader's attention. The anger content is spot on for the age range. It offers relatable scenarios that could make a child angry. It acknowledges what they want to do with the anger but guides them toward healthier options. Overall, it is a great book for talking about anger.

[Hypatia's Dream · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cuando estoy enfadado nos muestra una faseta que todos los humanos pasamos alguna o muchas veces. Un sentimiento tan normal pero que debemos aprender a manejar para vivir en armonía. Los niños entenderán de manera inteligente que el sentimiento de enfado es muy normal y las maneras en que se puede evitar.

Las ilustraciones son muy bellas y tiernas como la mayoría de entregas de Trace M.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helps to explain the emotion of anger in simple terms to preschool-aged kids. My 2.5 year old has enjoyed others in this series but this particular one seemed to go a bit over his head. Will try again when he is a little older and see if the descriptions make more sense to him then.

[Tarina Nye · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book perfectly illustrates how to handle angry feelings in a healthy way, which could be very useful to some students! I think that this book would be great to have in a classroom, and maybe in community circles.

[Sarah Oswalt · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite part of this book was how angry the bunny was. I would use this book to teach my students that there are good ways to deal with anger

[Ivory · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book about emotions. I enjoyed that is book always valued the emotions and never diminished them. A good read aloud.
Copyright: 2006

[TJ & AJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little people, big feelings. Calming down is a lot easier on the page than in real life, but it's still a good way into those conversations about feelings and actions.

[Kit · Rating 4 out of 5]

Higher than a three. Pretty good.
I like the pictures.
Rabbit on the front cover of the edition I read is furry textured 🙂

[Lex Redding · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to explain emotions to little ones.

[Marcela Lozano · Rating 4 out of 5]

El enfado es uno de los sentimientos más difíciles de comprender pero este libro describe de manera más fácil que los niños puedan entender sin sentir culpabilidad.

[ChrisAndShun DeMoir · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book on anger and fixing emotions

[Chloe Goros · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this with my two year old and exploring the feeling of anger.

[Lila Danisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple yet so educational
Easy way to teach my son about what angry is
Currently one of his favorite books

[Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this book has merit for being a good way to talk about what little people can do with big feelings.

[Kaili K.]

Uskumatu kui hästi on tunded sõnadesse pandud:

“Vihastamises pole midagi halba. Aga see on küll väga paha, kui vihaga kellelegi teisele liiga teed.”

[Erika HerO · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imposible no sentirse identificado con el conejito.

[Karin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Opened the door to a great convo about what makes us upset and why.