The Great Big Book of Feelings - Hardcover

Mary Hoffman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847802818 ISBN 13: 9781847802811

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2013

Synopsis

The book opens with the question: "How are you feeling today?" And this leads on to a spread by spread presentation of a wide range of feelings, including:

*Happy * Sad * Excited * Bored * Interested * Angry * Upset * Calm * Silly * Lonely * Scared  * Safe *Embarrassed  * Shy * Confident * Worried * Jealous * Satisfied  

The final spread is about Feeling Better because sharing and talking about feelings helps us to feel better.   
 
The approach and design follows The Great Big Book of Families, with lots of different children in lots of different situations, brief text captions and questions and plenty of humour to make sure the book is fun.

Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith look at feelings in family life, at school and everywhere with the same warmth, wit and sensitivity that they brought to their award- winning The Great Big Book of Families.

 

About this title

Review:

  'Everything about this book is so thoughtfully done; even the topic headings are each given a different and highly appropriate look. A great book for encouraging children to explore and reflect upon a whole range of feelings. It is a must to have in an infant or nursery class as well as being excellent for family browsing.'

â— â â â  Parents' Lounge feature -â  5 positive reviews by parents. Quotes include :

'Easy-to-read yet thought-provoking.'â 

I enjoyed the jovial format that kept my five year olds's attention. Some feelings are hard to describe yet this book captures them beautifully.' â 

'My son adored this book .When he felt angry the day after reading the book, he went off and drew some pictures of steam coming out of his ears.' â 

'We had a great discussion around whatâ  you can do when you feel angry, instead of hurting other people. Helpful as my three year old struggles with her emotions towards her newborn baby sister.'

'There are lots of things to like about this book not east the illustrations which fill each page.'â â â â â â â â â â â 

'A terrific book, complemented by quirky and humorous illustrations from Ros Asquith. … This is an essential book for schools as well as being perfect for families.'

About the Author:

MARY HOFFMAN is the internationally acclaimed author of over 100 books for children, ranging from picture books to teenage fiction. Her first picture book for Frances Lincoln, Amazing Grace, has become a classic which, with its sequels in the series, has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. Mary’s other picture books for Frances Lincoln include The Colour of Home with Karin Littlewood and An Angel Just Like Me with Cornelius van Wright, as well as the hugely successful The Great Big Book of Families, The Great Big Book of Feelings, and Welcome to the Family, all with Ros Asquith. Their next title together will be The Great Big Body Book. Mary Hoffman lives in Oxfordshire. For more information about her books visit her website: www.maryhoffman.co.uk

ROS ASQUITH has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years, and has written and illustrated over 70 books for young people, including the bestseller The Great Big Book of Families, with Mary Hoffman, the Teenage Worrier series, Letters from an Alien Schoolboy-which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize- and her debut picture story book It’s Not Fairy. Ros lives in north London with her husband and two sons. For more information about Ros, visit her website: www.rosasquith.co.uk

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847802818
• ISBN 13: 9781847802811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Ros Asquith