I love this book for young kids. It's great at teaching meaning different emotions and the animals make it extra cute.

I love the use of animals to help kids learn about feelings. The art is cute and bright, too! I will be recommending it to the families I work with.

I enjoyed this sweet board book that is officially in stores today! The colorful illustrations were engaging and often, inspired giggles. Teaching our youngest humans emotions as they develop words and begin expanding their communication is so important. By pairing emotions with animal characteristics, even the youngest readers will be able to connect with behaviors that match their feelings. I also appreciated the authors specifying that emotions are not permanent traits. The mouse is only sometimes sad just as we progress in and out of our own emotions.

This book would make an ideal gift for a new parent or grandparent as well as a fantastic addition to any SEL collection. Additionally, I have enjoyed simplistic books like this one in therapy sessions focused on exploring emotions. This book would be fun to pair with role plays and then bridging into identification of when the client has felt sad like a mouse, reserved like a koala, etc.

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Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger is adorable. Toddlers will enjoy the pictures and the variety of animals. Many emotions are discussed and I envision a lesson plan encouraging little ones to imitate the animals expressions.

Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger is an adorable book to help preschool age children about feelings. The illustrations are cute and colorful, so they should be eye catching your younger children. I will add this title to my classroom library to help teach feelings/emotions to students with autism. This can be a very difficult topic for some students on the autism spectrum, so I’m always looking for new books to help my students recognize feelings in themselves and others. Self- regulation skills can be hard, so this will be one more tool to hopefully help teach a relatively abstract concept to my students.

A very simple book showing off multiple animals and varying emotions. There’s not much to this book, mainly geared towards young children. It’s a great start for introducing emotions to children and I believe it would be a great learning companion for children learning to regulate their emotions. My children were interested in the animal pictures and we discussed the words and emotions that the animals were experiencing. I think this is a really great book and I’d easily recommend this to parents of young children.

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This is a short story showing different animals and their emotions. Each page is a different animal with a different emotion. This would be good for a lower level classroom or to read to your child to show them there are different kinds of emotions.

This was cute, and I could see young children loving it. It would be a great way to explain emotions to children, and start a conversation about how others are feeling. The illustrations were adorable, and I liked how short each page was.

This is a cute book with the aim of giving young children context and vocabulary for different emotions. I thought that the animals' emotions sometimes are unclear from the illustrations, or just unrealistic (ex. "the rabbit feels kind") and could thus be confusing to young children still sorting out fact from fiction.

From my baby brother "I like it. Cute... Those animals are cute. I like that lion ... and that peacock!"

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To have an honest review, I have to admit that this was not my favorite. The text was great, and it is a perfectly timed book for my family - as my two and a half year old is very into emotions right now. The reason for this not being a higher starred review is the illustrations. They just really weren’t appealing and seemed a little amateur.

A cute story book that would be great for teaching animals and emotions. The artwork is interesting and its a quick and short read for kids!

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Such a fun picture book to help kids identify emotions. Uses 24 colorful illustrations of animals to depict different feelings. Examples: An alpaca feels anxious, a praying mantis is grateful, a lemur is excited, and a lion is proud. Checking out the pictures today, I find I’m as happy as a puppy, as thankful as the mantis. Hurrah!

4 of 5 Stars

Thanks to the author, Shambhala Publications, and NetGalley for the ARC. Opinions are mine.

Pub Date 13 Apr 2021
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3.5 "conversation and understanding building" stars !!

Thanks to Netgalley, the authors and Bala kids for an e-copy in exchange for my honest review.

This is a very good book for 2.5 to 4 year olds as they start developing language and differentiating their primary emotions.

Not all the words are emotions, a couple are attitudes or physical states. I also liked that some of the animals were a bit unusual so you could introduce the little ones to them too. The pictures are simple with bold color choices.

There is enough variety to read this book several times and more deeply embed learning.

Matching animals with emotions, this book will help you give your children words for what they are feeling. The illustrations are a bit off beat, but still colorful and vibrant.