Feelings to Share from A to Z

by Todd Snow, Peggy Snow, Carrie Hartman (Illustrator)

Knowing how to describe our feelings is important to our emotional health. So is knowing it's okay to talk about our feelings with others. Feelings can be confusing when we don't have the words to express them; they can be overwhelming and even scary when we keep them to ourselves. In rhyming poems and engaging illustrations, this book helps children build and use a vocabulary for communicating their emotions. Because it's meant to be read aloud, it encourages discussion. From "A is for Awesome" to "Z is for Zany", Feelings invites kids to name, claim, and share their emotions.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published May 10, 2007

Reviews

[Maeve · Rating 2 out of 5]

An overview (from a to z) of the different emotions and feelings that one person could have.

I'm torn...it's a good introduction to emotions, but the rhythm was a bit off and it was difficult to find a good groove for reading aloud. Might be good for parents to read ahead of time to get some ideas to describe emotions, then choose a simpler book to share out loud with a child.

[Heidi Doyle · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute alphabet book about feelings, with rhyming texts and bright, colorful illustrations. This would be a great introductory read when talking about feelings with young kids.

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Introduces 26 different emotions!

[Yasmeen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grade/interest level: Early Childhood
Reading level: N/A
Genre: Information book, picture book
Main Characters: N/A
Setting: school, playground
POV: third person

This book uses rhyming poems and colorful illustration to to help children learn how to describe their feelings. Its shows how it is helpful to talk about feelings and that sometimes what we feel may leave us confused. This book uses an A to Z format that introduces children to some vocabulary words.
I can see myself using this book as a read aloud with a group of Pre-K and Kindergarteners. It is important to instill communication within students so after reading this book, I would discuss why need to be able to talk about feelings. This book introduces how to deal with emotions and feelings so it can very helpful to use with young students.

[Abby Peskin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although the book gives examples of situations in which you might feel each emotion, each person might feel something different in those situations, and it doesn't help understand the emotion itself as much as I might like. However, it is a fun, playful book that introduces children to emotion words they may not have heard before, like exhausted, brave, and generous. As the authors needed to come up with a different word for each letter, some of them feel like a stretch, and seem more like regular adjectives than emotions. That being said, this would work better as a fun classroom book or something for parents to read to their kids, rather than a legitimate education about emotions and emotion-labeling.

[Breana Vining · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to use for children to help them express thier feelings.

[Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this book because I feel that it is important for students to understand their feelings and learn to express them in healthy ways.

[Alyssa]

This book is about learning the alphabet but also the feelings associated with each letter of the alphabet. Each letter has a different feeling!

[Rebecca Waack]

This book is all about different feelings, one for each letter of the alphabet.