Thoughts:
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. This is such a good little book for kids exploring their feelings and learning how to manage them. I liked the cute names for the brain's messengers and child friendly explanations for them and the happy hormones. The activities such as letter to Lim and the emotional regulation exercises like the body scan and family joy jar are great for helping kids feel in control and manage their own emotions.

Favourite Quote:
"Feelings can seem magical, can’t they?"

A very cool book that illustrates feelings, talks about how to express them and makes the understanding of them more tangible and externalised. Suitable for both children and adults and a great book for families, and neurodiverse individiuals.

Feelings can be so confusing. I love this simple approach that had wonderful explanations and images. This book will lead to excellent discussion of when kids have experienced each feeling. I also like that they’re are activities to do that relate to every feeling- including something science related!

A little guide for the big feelings of small or old people! I love how it gives a scientific explanation of how our brains work and what each part of our brain does concerning our emotions. Also, I loved all the activities that you can do with your children to help them move and overcome their. difficult emotions like sadness and anger.

Nice book for a bit older kids or adults that still have no idea how the whole system works.

I recommend it to every parent with small or teen kids.

Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author of my ARC.

I enjoyed this book. It was both entertaining while teaching the science of emotions in an easy-to-understand language. Even adults can learn something from this.
It simplifies the scientific process behind how emotions are created/experienced by giving the different actors involved - hippocampus, amygdala etc - different personalities.
I also appreciated the little tips throughout the book about how to manage one's emotions. Like the suggestion about stomping your feet into your ground, when you are mad! I might actually try that next time I am feeling agitated.
Illustrations were fine - not my taste, but nothing negative to say about them. They were interesting enough.
My only real critique is the potion recipes in the book. I understand the idea behind them and can see the logic of creating them with young children in order to make the topic more tangible and engage the tactile sense. But I also see it as a waste of ressources to create these potions. But then again, arts and crafts are important for kids... I don't know. I guess I'm torn on that one.

This book is the perfect combination of the movie “Inside Out” and beloved books and TV Shows “The Magic School Bus”
The author does a fantastic job writing this specifically for kids, using their verbiage and examples they experience in day to day life. They were a genius and gave the parts of our brain little nicknames which made it easier for the kiddos to grasp. The nicknames paired with the captivating illustrations leaves you and your child ready to take on the big feelings.

This book would be a phenomenal resource for quick SEL lessons for teachers or homeschool families. This book something every parent should go through with their children with the opportunity for the kiddos as well as the grown ups to learn from.

*I received this book as an ARC but had the opportunity to truthfully and critically rate this book with my own opinions.

I was impressed while reading this book. Explaining the science behind the emotions (sadness, happiness, madness, worry, overwhelm) in a child-friendly manner it takes a lot of talent.
The book opens with what your body is telling you about what’s feeling inside and continues with an illustrative exposition of how brain deals with feelings.
Each feeling is unveiled starting with definition, symptoms, causes and solutions throughout beautiful illustrations.
This book can be used at home and in classroom as well!

I was so impressed with this book that I have already placed an order for it's release.

This book introduces the brain and it's different functions through four fun characters. The book gives hints and tips for coping with emotions and what happens when it all becomes too much.

I am going to use this as a resource in my bag as I think it's one that every primary school and parent could benefit from!

Thank you NetGalley for enabling me to read an advance copy.

This was very informative in a very easy way for understanding for kids.

Being a doctor, I knew how everything works but even then I wouldn't be able to make someone understand how it goes. This book is definitely going to help there.

It will be very useful for parents and teachers to make kids understand how feelings are generated in our brains.

Thank you Netgalley, storey publishing and Jen daily for the wonderful ARC in exchange of an honest review.

This is a beautifully illustrated book on various aspects of different feelings. With each feeling comes a fun activity for children to do, It is the perfect book to introduce students to the science behind our feelings.

Big brain nerd here! I loved this book! I tested it out with my 5 year old at home and can’t wait to use it with my kinders! Well done!

Great tool for helping little ones understand how emotions and feeling are caused and affect our bodies. My son loved this

This is a wonderful book that gets into the heart of how emotions work. The book does not shy away from using real scientific words and languages. It also uses a 70’s style art to help illustrate what’s going on. It all works together quite well to make not only an educational book but entertaining one as well.

ARC reader for NetGalley

The perfect companion to teach your littles how their emotions work, what parts of their brain they come from and why along with some useful tip on controlling them. Chock full of information and fun experiments to do with your littles.

Great to share with children and adults alike to help make sense of their feelings and emotions. Fantastic for any school ELSA to use in sessions. I will be buying it for my school.

A wonderful way to teach children emotions and how they work in our body. Breaking it down based on science and how our brain sends different impulses out is an amazing way to get a grip on those emotions and regulate them. The illustrations were adorable but my favorite part was the activities.

This books had several activists throughout that were designed to help children regulate their emotions, or provide an outlet for them. Breaking it down in a scientific way shows them that they can conquer it and they are not subject to stay in that emotion forever. I can’t wait to try out some of the activities with my children.

This SEL gem of a picture book should be in every library and classroom. It combines descriptions of emotions with how to deal with them and even includes activities throughout the book to learn more about and practice emotional regulation.

This was a superb book to enable people, children or adults alike to understand their emotions and to see a way forward. The descriptions involved were very well put and explained very clearly. The reading would suit a teenager as well as an adult but with help a oyounger person could follow along and gain help from reading this.
I did think that the activities geared towards the yoounger element were superb and would certainly help them to understand the how and why we feel the way that we do and the way that the brain works.

The writing style is quite juvenile for the concepts covered in this book. The concepts are important, and understanding how your brain works can be empowering. But I don't think the style of illustrations and language match well with explanations of physical parts of the brain, for example.

The audience for this book would probably be a K-1 student. Younger would probably be lost in the terminology, and older would find the wording or activities childish.

I do think my 7-year old would benefit from this, and I'm sure others could as well.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

On the surface this is a children's book on how the brain works, but it's also very much for the grown ups. Despite reading and learning about this in the past, this was the first time I really understood how the parts of the brain interact. The nicknames, characters, and color coding are very helpful.
ARC from NetGalley