When I'm Feeling Happy

The Feelings Series

by Trace Moroney

Have you ever been so happy that you wanted to jump for joy? Does spending time with your friends or watching the starry night sky make you smile from ear to ear? The little rabbit loves how it feels to be happy and to be patient and kind to others as well. Read along, and you too might find that happiness is contagious!

Genres: Picture Books, Emotion, Childrens, Fiction

18 pages, Hardcover

First published January 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

[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).

This book has background notes for parents in order to assist children to encourage better understanding their feelings and freedom over their lives, thus leading to additional emotional support that can lead to healthy self esteem and feeling valued.

[Derrica Chambers · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very colorful. It expresses the different experiences the bunny feels when it is happy. It talks about the things that makes it feel peaceful and makes it calm when it is upset. This book provides an activity at the end to match emotional and labels. This is helpful for children and adults to connect with emotions.

[Sterlande Altidor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to read to young children, and to help them put their own feelings into perspective. It is teaches children methods that they can use when they are dealing with strong feelings. This book offers parents a distraction and a reminder of the ways to deal with children feelings.

[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 happy so the author chose words such as smiling and laughing. The illustrations as well are very vibrant to reflect the happiness within the character.

[Jade · Rating 5 out of 5]

The youngest member of the household showed up with this book at bedtime, which was a very sweet way for them to indicate that they were feeling happy today. We've been using this series of books to discuss emotions in a safe space for years.

[Lila Danisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good book to explain to my son about what happy is. He is in the age of feelings explosion, and my job as his mother is to let him understand each and every feeling he feels. Hence, this book helps me a lot.

[TJ & AJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a favorite. More of a conversation starter than anything else.

[Maria Popescu]

Read in Italian. Great series to teach children about emotions!

[Lara Bate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book and would recommend any child to read it.

[Inga Narijauskienė · Rating 5 out of 5]

Miela knygutė pirmosioms vaiko pažintims su emocijomis.
"Kai jaučiuosi LAIMINGAS, noriu šypsotis, ir viskas pasaulyje taip nuostabu."

[Erika HerO✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gusta esta colección de libros sobre los sentimientos, pero "CONTENTO".
El libro lo encontré mas simple sin una enseñanza mas allá, pero recalco lo tierno que son los conejitos.

[Agostina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lindo libro para leerle a mi sobrina, me recordó a Intensamente por el tema de gestionar las emociones.

[Lightwhisper · Rating 5 out of 5]

A começar pela capa que dá para sentir o fofinho do coelho, às ilustrações e história de fazer agradar as crianças e quem lhes lê a história :) Versão portuguesa da Porto Editora.

[Addison Children's Services · Rating 4 out of 5]

The little rabbit loves how it feels to be happy. Thinking questions at the back of the book help children review and connect to what they have read.

[Karina Bernal · Rating 4 out of 5]

love it

[Stef Rozitis · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books are very popular and describe the feelings pretty accurately (for some people) but I am not sure what purpose they serve. Maybe they can open the door to having conversations about feelings with children, however I feel like it is sort of one of those half thought out ideas based on an assumption that anything with information however obvious in it is "educational" and therefore good for kids. Do children actually learn anything? They do seem willing to sit and listen to the book, though this is children who frankly aren't very fussed so long as someone has a book open with them. I think happiness in particular is a self-explanatory feeling that children (and even adults) can deal with for themselves.

Am I missing something?

The pictures are cute...

[Amanda Kolar]

Moroney tells a story about what you can what you can do when you are happy and what you can do to make someone else happy too. I would use this in my classroom. It would help me teach my students what they can do when they are happy and what nice things they can do for someone else to try and put a smile on their face.

[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.

[Ebone Cooper · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book comes in a set (sad, mad, etc.). Very simple book to begin to think about what happy, looks, and feels like. What are some things that make you happy? can be asked.
I would use this book for 4/5 year olds. Older children may lose interest because to the simplicity.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute book about emotions and putting them into kid-terms.

[Alshaimaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

شعرت بكل ماقام به ذلك الأرنب، وانتقل لي احساس السعادة.
وصف جداً جميل ومدخل رائع لشعور السعادة.

[Amber]

1 copy available

[Gillian · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very simple concept but these books are great, particularly for discussing emotions with young children.

[Ian McHugh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lovely little book about how to be happy. Florence was V-E-R-Y happy about reading it. She loved the fluffy bunny who tells the story - particularly when they fly a kite!