I Feel!: A Book of Emotions

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Pura Belpr Award-winning author-illustrator Juana Medina helps young readers to identify how they feel with bold, colorful illustrations and simple text in this paper-over-board picture book, the third book in the I WILL! series.

Do you feel happy Sad Calm Shy Brave Proud

This book provides a way for young readers and the adults in their lives to talk about their feelings and build emotional literary together. Whether dealing with starting school, moving to a new place, experiencing a loss, or another new experience, young readers will have the opportunity to process their emotions about it with the adults in their life.

With bold, playful illustrations and simple text, this picture book focuses on helping young readers build emotional literacy, affirming their emotions, and improving communication skills.

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"Everyone struggles with managing the emotions that roil them, but for young children, emotions can be even harder without a way to articulate them. Medinas new bookand the third in her I Will seriesseeks to help children point to and name 14 different emotions. The illustrations depict a diverse group of children and a variety of skin tones; the pairings will elicit conversations. Perfect for parents, teachers, psychologists, and counselors to share with young children to help them validate, understand, and even regulate their emotions." School Library Journal (starred review) Belpr Awardwinning Medina ... sets up this picture book with the question, Do you feel. Each subsequent spread lists an emotion accompanied by two illustrations. One shows the feeling in action, for example, a light-skinned child splashing in a puddle to depict happy. The other is a simple line drawing of a face (for happy, a teal face with smiling eyes and a large grin). The book concludes, All feelings are valid. It is what we do with them that matters. Medinas naming ... of human emotions are empowering for little readers and a starting place for conversations with caregivers. Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Juana Medina was born and raised in Bogot, Colombia. She is the author and illustrator of the Pura Belpr Award-winning chapter bookJuana & Lucas.Juana's other author-illustrated books includeI WILL!,I AM!,Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas,1 Big Salad,ABC Pasta, andSweet Shapes. She has earned recognition from the Colombian Presidency, the National Cartoonists Society, the National Headliner Awards, the International Latino Book Awards, and the Ridgway Awards, among others quite impressive for someone who was a less-than-stellar student and often got in trouble for drawing cartoons of her teachers. Despite all the trouble caused, Juana studied and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the Corcoran College of Art + Design (where students had plenty of chances to draw cartoons of her). She lives in the DC area, with her wife, twin sons, and their dear dog, Rosita. Juana Medina was born and raised in Bogot, Colombia. She is the author and illustrator of the Pura Belpr Award-winning chapter bookJuana & Lucas.Juana's other author-illustrated books includeI WILL!,I AM!,Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas,1 Big Salad,ABC Pasta, andSweet Shapes. She has earned recognition from the Colombian Presidency, the National Cartoonists Society, the National Headliner Awards, the International Latino Book Awards, and the Ridgway Awards, among others quite impressive for someone who was a less-than-stellar student and often got in trouble for drawing cartoons of her teachers. Despite all the trouble caused, Juana studied and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the Corcoran College of Art + Design (where students had plenty of chances to draw cartoons of her). She lives in the DC area, with her wife, twin sons, and their dear dog, Rosita.