How Do You Feel? - Hardcover

Browne, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763658626 ISBN 13: 9780763658625

Publisher: Candlewick Pr, 2012

Synopsis

What better feeling than opening a new book from Anthony Browne? A simple look at familiar emotions for the very young. How do you feel? Sometimes you feel happy, sometimes sad. At times you feel curious, but that may be followed by feeling . . . surprised. And of course you feel bored or lonely once in a while as well. With spare words and simple, graphic illustrations, quintessential chimp renderer Anthony Browne draws on insight and humor to reassure children with an exploration of the varied emotions they experience.

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Review:

The clean simplicity of the book's design and concepts make this very accessible for a young audience, while the richer subtleties of the illustrations and the conversational tone will provoke plenty of worthwhile discussion. This will be a useful and attractive addition to curricular studies of feelings, as well as a handy tool for parents and an enjoyable selection for library storytimes.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

While the text itself communicates each emotion--using large, bold letters for surprised, a smaller font for lonely, letters that seem to leap up and down for funny, and so forth--it's Browne's brightly colored watercolor-and-gouache illustrations of the expressive chimp that truly convey the animal's feelings best.
--Booklist

With blue overalls, a green sweater, yellow sneakers and a trademark Browne primate face, this toddler-shaped chimp really catches the eye. He looks up at an unseen speaker, who asks, "How do you feel?" The young chimp demonstrates various feelings: "Sometimes I feel very happy... / and sometimes I feel sad"; sometimes confident, guilty, angry, silly, shy or worried. Browne uses scale, hue, facial expression and minimalist backgrounds to make each watercolor-and-gouache picture fetching in its own way.
--Kirkus Reviews

"How do you feel?" asks an adorable, overall-clad monkey. The cute little primate discusses a range of emotions that children might experience in a variety of situations.
--School Library Journal

This deceptively simple book introduces an overalls-clad chimp who evokes a spectrum of emotions as he answers the titular question. Though the minimal text is forthright, Browne's nuanced watercolor and gouache pictures use body language and other cues to amplify each emotion... The chimp models 14 emotions and other feelings (like hungry and full) in total, all of which reappear in miniature on a final spread that asks readers directly how they feel, cementing the book's usefulness as a tool to both introduce emotions and encourage discussions of readers' feelings.
--Publishers Weekly

Taking children through happy and sad, confident and shy and beyond, Mr. Browne's gentle drawings will leave toddlers better equipped to explain themselves in a culture that prizes self-awareness.
--The Wall Street Journal

Book Description:

A book about feelings, for the youngest child.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Pr
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0763658626
• ISBN 13: 9780763658625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32