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Inspector Croc's Emotion-O-Meter

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I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I like the pictures in this book. They are bright and colorful. I think the message is good, learning to deal with different emotions. It's a little long for my taste. I think most kids would have trouble sitting for it all at one time.

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This book is a well done educational tool. I think it is too long for a bedtime story, or standard picture book, but I can see a teacher or caregiver choosing an emotion a day or week and working lessons around it. The book is divided into the various emotions and the signs of that emotion. It looks at how to recognize it, who to tell how strong it is, and things that might happen when it is being felt. It mixes “cases” or real scenes with informational pages to keep things flowing. I like how each emotion is a character with a name, a color and a shape. Overall, this is very well done. I have a few problems, mostly small and not worth mentioning, except when talking about reactions and physical changes, the book mentions “turn pale, sometimes as white as snow”. I take exception to the “white as snow” because it assumes all people are as white as the cartoon bunny in the illustration. To be pale means different things if the reader of a different skin color. To this reader, it appears to say all this books readers will be Caucasian. I think this line and example needs a little work.

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Inspector Croc's Emotion-O-Meter is basically the Disney movie Inside Out in book form. Unfortunately it felt too much like reading a text book. I didn't like it very much.

Thank you Netgalley and Myrick Marketing & Media, LLC for giving me the opportunity to read Inspector Croc's Emotion-O-Meter. 🐊💖

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This book is amazing and wonderful. I love this current trend of books helping kids figure out and understand the emotions that they are going through. This one is exceptional as it not only going through the emotions but it breaks down what is specific about that emotion and gives an example of when the emotion would come into play. I love how the theme comes into play with Inspector Croc giving notes with each specific one. This book is very thorough and probably one of the better emotion books I've seen so far. There are even tips on how to handle each one and that's what sets the book over the top. I think this should be in every library and personal collection, especially for those parents with developing kids.

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