Proud of Our Feelings by Lindsay Leghorn, Leghorn, Lindsay Leghorn (Illustrator)

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Synopsis

For parents, teachers, and professionals who often wonder how to react to the dizzying array of emotions expressed by children, help is now at hand. Proud of Our Feelings provides children with an entertaining and constructive way to learn to accept and appropriately express their emotions. It will also help to stimulate discussion and interaction between children and the adults who care for them. Proud of Our Feelings is a wonderful way for children and parents to explore and openly discuss their unspoken feelings, thereby helping the children to build the feelings of self-trust that will enable them to evolve into emotionally well-balanced people. Whether joy or sadness, excitement or anger, confidence or fear, this book addresses a different emotion on each page and asks insightful questions that will result in the fruitful exploration of the child's emotional landscape. In addition, children will identify with the real-life, multicultural illustrations, and the delightful prose will help to enhance the feeling being discussed.

Annotation

Priscilla introduces her friends, each of whom is feeling and expressing a different emotion.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2-Priscilla introduces her friends, one at a time, and describes how each is feeling and why. "Oh, Shelly's feeling shy. Meeting new people makes her feel shy." Pictured on the left with brief text and ample white space, Priscilla mimics each emotion with her facial expression and body language. On the right, in a full-page watercolor illustration with a narrow white border, Leghorn depicts the child in question living out each feeling. A variety of multiethnic youngsters express friendliness, sadness, happiness, silliness, anger, confidence, frustration, loneliness, excitement, fear, and security. All the characters appear together in a double-page spread at the end, obviously pleased with themselves. In an introductory note to adults, the author suggests that they expand the interactive text by having children draw or act out different feelings. While not particularly exciting, this is a serviceable vehicle for exploring the topic. Pair it with Jeanne Modesitt's Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse (Scholastic, 1992).-Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community-Technical College, CT