This is a darling little story of a young tiger named Harper who is learning how to manage her emotions when she has big feelings. Her mother teaches her a song to calm herself down, a skill she takes with her to school. The illustrations are soft and vivid and the text is manageable for reading to young readers. I think this would be a great book for toddlers who are learning to navigate their feelings and would recommend it for preschool classes.

Thank you to NetGalley, Zeitgeist and Jayme Yannuzzi for the eARC of this children's book.

Thank you to Netgalley for this e-copy of Harper Handles Big Feelings by Jayme Yanuzzi in exchange for a honest review. This is a wonderful story of a tiger named Harper who handles her big feelings with the help of her mother and her special song that helps her calm down . Working as a preschool assistant in a preschool disabled classroom, every day I witness our children having big feelings that they can’t control.Having a song or saying that each child can use to calm down is vital to their success in mastering preschool.This book is a perfect recipe for setting the preschooler up for success

Strategies for Big Feelings

I think this book is a great starting strategy for managing big feelings.

The book was illustrated to the point of pulling you into each specific scene.

This book would make a great gift for a classroom at the beginning of the school year (or anytime) to set the expectations for tactics to manage their own emotions.

I received a copy of this book from Jayme Yannuzzi and Familius. I have elected to leave a review. All opinions are my own.

This book is a great tool for helping toddlers navigate big feelings. Also provides parents with some good examples that can be carried over and taught to your kids to help regulate those big emotions. The pictures were also cute! Will definitely be reading it to my toddler and singing the song.

Harper has big feelings about show and tell day. Her mom helps handle these big emotions by teaching her a catchy song.

An important book!

I loved this book. It has colorful, fun illustrations. The lessons in the book are very useful for both parents and kids. This is a very important, helpful book for toddlers. I cannot recommend this enough!

Four year old loved the story and especially the pictures.
As an adult reading this my only issue was that what tune was the rhyme supposed to be sing to since it didn’t rhyme.
For young kids very cute story about everyone having big feelings.

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This book is a wonderful way to show and describe the different feelings we all go through. It has a little song to help kids settle down and recenter themselves when big emotions come. I think this is an important book for kids to read with their caregivers.

I like how this book can be used with toddlers to show them how even book characters may get frustrated but it’s ok. There are a lot of books for older kids but younger kids need coping skills as well.

A powerful story introducing the little ones to big emotions like sadness, jealousy, worry; and a sweet song to help overcome it! The text by Jayme Yannuzzi is simple, relatable to both kids and adults and John John Bajet's illustrations compliment the story so well!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a perfect example for kids to help them understand their big feelings, using everyday problems to help them relate easier.
This also reminds us parents to also stay calm and teach them how to breathe through the emotions.
Loved this picture book!

Really quick, what's Harper's beef with Sammy? Just kidding!
But, in all seriousness, this is a great book! All kids will benefit from this book at some point or another. Nobody knows how to manage certain emotions right away, and this book flawlessly equips little ones with simple, effective, and accessible skills to use when their emotions get away from them. The song was such a clever idea, and I really like how kids and their parents/caregivers can apply the lyrics to any tune they want. It allows this book to be a bit more personal and tailored to the reader. Lastly, the illustrations were stunning! All of the animals were especially adorable, and I loved the illustrator's use of both soft and vibrant colors. Bravo!!

I read this with my almost 4 year old. We loved the illustrations. I couldn’t figure out the tune with the song but overall thought it did a good job with teaching emotions.

I really adored the illustrations in this book! They looked like colored pencil drawings which I thought was really pretty & different from most books I've read with my kids. Overall, I really loved the point of this book & how it helps kids understand emotions & how to regulate them. I feel like the song was a bit hard to guess how to sing since there wasn't a rhyming scheme or anything. I suppose that makes it up to the reader's discretion but it took me out of the flow of the book a bit. I enjoyed that there was diversity in the book (kids with glasses, a kid in a wheelchair) as well! It was really awesome to see.

This book aims to helps kids identify a number of emotions and normalize expressing what we are feeling. The “song” reminds us to take a deep breath and count to three when wanting to “calm down”.

My children loved the illustrations and were engaged for the whole book. I felt like the song was a little clunky. The use of a tiger and a count to calm down song reminded me of Daniel the Tiger.

⭐️ 5/5

I read this with my 4 year old daughter who was actively participating and listening. The message and lesson is so helpful and important for young kids. The way the story was written with beautifully illustrated art was very effective for my daughter. This was very well put together and heartwarming!

Thank you Zeitgeist and Z Kids for providing this ARC via NetGalley for review consideration!

This was adorable! I work with children, and know the importance of teaching them how to deal with complex emotions that they can’t quite find the words to name.

I love the way Harper Handles Big Feelings names these emotions and equates them with the way it can make you feel inside. That can play such a key role in learning the identification of emotions.

I also really like the use of the song! Overall, this has so much heart, and I can see it being a classroom staple once it is released.

This book is a lovely quick read for little humans! It explores lots of different emotions, explains that it's ok to feel each emotion and teaches children how to deal with them. As a teacher I would love to use this with younger pupils and even those with SEMH needs.

A guide to the emotions a youngster faces dressed up as a story, as Harper the active tiger cub gets ready for show-and-tell at her pre-school. So glad to be taking her favourite toy, she's frustrated by putting her own coat on by herself, anxious at mother's absence, then gets ratty about not being first to present… It's all there, and yet the story is allowed to breathe as a narrative and not just be forced to frame the definitions and advice here. For advice there is – a rather un-brilliant four-line verse we're supposed to learn and keep for future use. The simple text gets the definitions across well, and the examples of each mood are enhanced by the visuals, which really strongly look like ancient cartoons, and as having a very hand-crafted texture at the same time. If that verse we are intended to take away could give its advice in a way that had the charm as the visuals we could be on to an instant classic, but all the same the use of the story makes this stand out against other such emotion primers, and this is a strong four stars as a result.

A very cute book, my daughter enjoyed it while I read it to her. The song was a cute touch and such a good way to get children to think and do what the song says to.

Definitely recommend this book as a way to help children deal with some of their big feelings.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an ARC copy of this book to review.