I Snoop On My Feelings is a story about a young boy that is feeling many emotions after moving, starting at a new school and making new friends. This would be a great book for Pre-K to 2nd grade.

Thanks to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for a free digital copy.

My first problem with this book is that the mom's clothing is too revealing, especially for a picture book. My second problem is it promotes a crush of a small child on another small child. I couldn't get past the over sexualization of this book to pay attention to the message.

I snoop On My Feelings is a really nice and cute book. First of all I did like the representation of a curvy mother. Secondly, this book helps kids to understand what they are feeling. The feelings, are colored and bold, and it catches the eye. Also, I loved the cat. I really like when at the end of the book, has questions for conversation. Overall 5 stars for this one.

A nice little story to help children recognise ‘feelings’ through the signals of their body.

A little boy is playing when his mom comes and tells him that they are moving to another city. Through the various reactions his body generates (heart pounding, cheeks flushing, skin tingling,…) at this news and the aftermath of the move, he understands the various feelings he is capable of, ranging from fear to surprise to shyness to even love. (I certainly didn’t expect a first crush to be part of a children’s picture book, but it sure was cute to see the little fellow’s love-struck eyes! 😄)

The idea behind the story is quite simple yet it works well. Children find it tough to express how they feel, so such books, hopefully, will help them understand their own needs and emotions and communicate better. It will also help them manage their emotions when a negative emotion threatens to take over.

The text is written in simple rhythmic prose in AABB scheme. The language level is mostly manageable for its target audience of 3-5 years old. There are a couple of nice discussion resources and activities at the end of the book.

The illustrations are nice and bright. They almost pop off the page because of the vivid hues. The little boy and his pet cat are drawn in a quirky way but they still steal the show with their expressions. The only sketch I didn’t like was the illustration of the mother – why did she have to be sketched like a blonde bombshell in a cleavage-revealing and figure-hugging outfit? She looks so out of place in this story.

Overall, definitely a helpful book for little ones that combines entertainment with education. Recommended for sure. It will work especially well in schools and libraries and will be a helpful aid for children’s counsellors as well.

4 stars.

My thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for the DRC of “I Snoop On My Feelings”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.

The title of this book caught my eye thinking that any books on feelings and kids are always interesting. The story is about a boy who learns that he is moving and the emotions he undergoes. I think of Inside Out but this one narrates his transition into starting a new school and how he feels. The story has colorful photos and even offers a coloring section at and discussion questions at the end. Despite these offerings, I wanted more from the storyline as it felt it ended with no ending.

I Snoop On My Feelings
5 Stars

I Snoop On My Feelings is a great book that teaches children to identify with their emotions. Younger children can get upset/cry when they get overwhelmed or overstimulated; I found books like this so helpful, because they help youngsters to better identify feelings. Thus, making it easier to deescalate the situation. The illustrations are very expressive, bright and colorful.

Overall, I love this book and it's a good addition to any library. I'd recommend this book to teachers, child counselors or parents with kids that have special needs. Thank you, NetGalley and BooksGoSocial, for an advance review copy for free and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I Snoop On My Feelings is a great book which explains to children what it's like to feel big emotions and how to deal with them. It has bright illustrations which all add to the enjoyment of the story.

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for my ARC.

My kids are a bit older for this but they still enjoyed this. The book is great for talking about big feelings with kids who are still learning how to deal with them and communicate. Not just kids, some adults need such reassurances and validation too!

My 5-year-old enjoyed reading this book. The language was easy for him to understand. The pictures were a great way to discuss emotions and throughout the book, we were talking about these as we read. This was a very interactive book for us and we are going to read it again. I would highly recommend reading this book for young children and within Eyfs for learning emotional responses to different situations.

I read this to my son who is four and he loved it. He really enjoyed the illustrations with bright colors and enjoyed how the little one in the story displayed his mood in his actions and facial features. This was a great book about normalizing feelings and how to ensure you are aware of your feelings. Such a cute story!

This one is dubbed a little book about big feelings, and it’s goal is helping kids recognize what they’re feeling and being able to express that. This one is as fun as it is important. From anger and rage, to worry, to fear, shyness, to puppy love, to happiness, and everything else, this one uses a little boy’s emotions and feelings after learning he must move to a new city, moving, and then starting a new school, to help illustrate and put a name and description to the feelings both adults and kiddos most commonly feel. If that wasn’t enough, this one comes with great questions to get a conversation going between parents and little ones, as well as some exercises where kids can match the feelings described to an emotion, and better help them understand their own feelings. I am all about communication and openness, and this one is a home run!

This is a great intro to emotions for kiddos! The illustrations and bright colors were fun and eye-catching. I loved the rhyming, as well as the formatting of this book. It really calls attention to the keywords and takeaways. And the best part is the activities at the end. It's a perfect way to make young readers think more deeply about the story and how they can identify the emotions within themselves.

This book is full of educational information and gorgeous, colourful illustrations.

This book highlights important feelings for children and I adore how it goes through the symptoms and then states the feeling that they represent such as fear, anger etc, this is super important as it helps to identify how the children feel as even as an adult, it can be hard to pin point and identify the feelings in the moment.

Additional to this, I love how the end has multiple activities to complete ranging from questions to involve both the child and parent to colouring. At the end, there is also an activity to match the feelings which I feel like strengthens the knowledge of certain feelings and how they can present themselves.

The structure of the book itself identifies the “negative” feelings first and ends on the positive feelings such as feeling proud and happy which I think is a beautiful way to tie it all together and ends it on a positive outlook which I think was very cleverly thought out.

This book was a cute way to discuss feelings and emotions with young kids. The child in the story goes through so many different emotions- anger, sadness, shyness, and many more. Each feeling is described very clearly in words a child would understand and in a rhyming sentence structure. The Illustrations are very simple and tie in colors associated with the feelings, like red for anger or blue for sadness.

My copy of the story had a part in the center that didn’t make sense and made me feel like I had missed a page or two, which is my only complaint.

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to read and review this story!

I loved this book and it is perfect for younger children to discuss feelings and emotions

The book was well laid out, it was nice, bright and attractive too

I thought that this book was fun and informative and I loved the added extras at the end that could be used as talking points too - as a mum I thought that it was a great book

It is 5 stars from me for this one – very highly recommended!

Sometimes our feelings can take a massive toll on our day to day lives, knowing how to understand and navigate those feelings are important.
When a little boy is thrown with the unexpected of life changes, he experiences some big emotions. I love the way the Author describes not only emotions throughout the story, but they also dive into the physical sensations and facial features that we may show or feel when we are having these moments. I like how the Author took the time and made the emotional words in the story line stand out by being different colors that matched the characters emotion. The illustrations are beautiful but simple, the rhyming text are great way for children to stay involved and it opens the floor for discussions throughout the story.
I love in the end of the story there are prompts for us to try with our children a match the feelings word sheet and coloring pages. I would recommend this book.


Thank you NetGalley and Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was such a sweet book for school-age children. It makes known that it’s okay to feel big feelings!

This story is about a boy who experiences big emotions when he discovers a very big upcoming life change. The author describes the physical sensations and facial features of how emotions manifest in our bodies. Colors are integrated into the story to match the character’s emotions. In this story, emotions are not shamed but described. Would recommend this book for preschool aged children!

Kids feel big emotions in big ways. They feel emotions with their whole bodies and they feel them all to the fullest. Sometimes they may have trouble expressing those feelings in healthy ways, or finding the words to describe and explain to adults how they are feeling and why.

A delightfully simple exploration on the big world of emotions, Winn has created a book with a focus on social-emotional vocabulary. Tackling all five SEL core competencies, it touches on self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness, and relationship skills. The simple illustrations and simple rhyming text are a great way to open conversations between adults and young readers on what the different words mean to them and how to incorporate them into daily life. Some of the most important lessons include, recognizing and naming feelings, expressing all feelings in a healthy way, understanding they will feel all emotions and all emotions are okay to feel and there are no bad emotions, some emotions are harder than others but we have to work through them in ways that don't hurt ourselves or others and we use our words to talk about them.

This story was both entertaining and educational, which can be a tricky balance to maintain in a children’s book, and I will be suggesting it to teachers whenever possible. Incorporating topics such as this into children's picture books is a tried and true way to teach important life skills in a way that is fun. This would be an amazing addition for classrooms, libraries, counselling offices and more.