A Box of Butterflies

This book is an introduction to social-emotional learning and affective education for kids. It is told through the eyes of a little girl named, Ruby and her best friend, Robot.

She tries to explain to him what feelings are and how different things in life can trigger an emotional reaction. She tells him that love feels like a box of butterflies, a colourful dancing kite, drinking tea in a sunset, and a firefly at night. She uses beautiful poetic language to help him understand what she is conveying.

"Where does love come from?" asked Robot.
"It comes from inside," said Ruby.
"I can't see anything," said Robot.

Ruby then tells him that you can't see emotions you feel them. She goes on to explain the feelings of jealously, anger, fear, worry and sadness, giving him examples so he can comprehend. With her careful explanations comes a miracle inside of Robot, he begins to feel something...

"something fluttery,
something uplifting,
something warm,
something glowing inside him..."

I wonder what emotion is bubbling up inside of him?

I love the simple but powerful message of this book. It is easily understood by children who can relate to those feelings. The illustrations greatly enrich the story. Both Ruby and Robot are such adorable characters and the dialogue between the two is both heartwarming and educational. The author has included a note to parents and caregivers about emotional skills and the book easily opens up avenues for wonderful conversations about recognizing and discussing those emotions. I highly recommend this book.

This is a charming book that explores all the emotions people feel through the eyes of a young girl explaining them to her robot. It's a great title for both the adorable illustrations and the opportunity to discuss how many emotions everyone experiences, how they are all okay, and how none of them last forever.

A wonderful book about teaching children to not only recognize a wide variety of emotions that they're feeling, but also teaches them to read facial expressions on others to gauge the emotions that they might be feeling. I strongly believe that this book will do wonders in classrooms to open up the topic of emotions to young children. Cover to cover, this book is a keeper! I thoroughly loved it!

A Box of Butterflies is a picture book about emotions with amazing illustrations. Robot & Ruby are friends. Ruby describes feelings with beautiful descriptions such as love feels like a firefly in the night and fear is like a heavy stone pressing on your tummy. Descriptions also have a concrete example such as, "I sometimes feel that way when I'm told No More TV!" (anger). Includes helpful note to parents and caregivers about emotional skills. I highly recommend this book to everyone with a small child!

A sweet children’s story with an explanation for parents to use as guided discussion with their children about their different emotions. The sweet little girl character begins to try to explain love to a robot friend and she ends up explaining and describing many different human emotions in a way that children can understand and almost visualize.

In A Box of Butterflies a little girl named Ruby describes different emotions to her friend Robot. The titular box of butterflies is how she describes love. The descriptions and illustrations are beautifully done and this book would be great for kids are just learning about emotions and who lack the vocabulary to describe their feelings.

"A Box of Butterflies" is beautifully illustrated and wonderfully written. I loved the simple way this book explains emotions. What they can feel like and what might make you feel these things.

Puts the complexity of feelings into cute little analogies. Great resources for parents in the back of the book to help discuss emotions with their child.

This book is a quick read but that doesn't change the fact that it's a wonderful and educational parenting tool. In this book we meet Ruby, a young girl who is friends with a robot. She communicates to him the various emotions and how she recognizes and experiences each of them. It's great as a starting point for social-emotional learning.

I loved the illustrations and the fact that they make it easy to open up a dialogue with the child about what they see happening and if they've experienced the various emotions. I also greatly liked the included "Note to Parents and Caregivers" which guides the adult on how best to utilize the book and how to encourage our children by interaction how to be self-aware of what they may be feeling, and also of great importance, how to self-regulate.

As a survivor I gained a great deal from this too. It's a great tool that I feel would be helpful for those who deal with dissociation and inner child / young parts lacking an emotional vocabulary.

HOw do you describe what emotions are to someone who has never experienced them. That is what this book is all about. A little girl tells a robot what emotions feel like.

The title describes love as a box of butterflies. (I would have said that was what being nervous was, but ok) She goes on to describe other emotions as well, such as Anger in the illustration below:

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And later, the robot gets the emotion of love, as a warmth, glowing, feeling of warmth, and understands.

Cute book about emotions. More of a book to discuss, than for a young child to read on their own.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Magination Press for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. What a great way to introduce the topic of feelings and emotions. I found d this to be fun and quick. A great introduction. Nice graphics. I think most parents would want to read this to their children. The afterward is a good source of information as well. I rated this a 4.5.

This was such a cute book. It is an excellent tool to discuss emotions with kids. I loved the use of the robot and the descriptive words for each emotion.

I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great book for not only children, but their parents, too! The story is really cute and the illustrations are great. The last part of the book is for the parents and tells them how to help their children understand their emotions.

I used books like this when I taught kids social skills classes at a nonprofit agency, and I'd say this one is right up there with those ones. Better even because it's pretty cute.