Also, you could ask your kids what kind of noise each of these animals make to ensure attentiveness. There are lots of ways to make this story interactive! This would be a fun book to read to a child because they would be able to show you their facial expressions for each emotion. The last page of the book shows different animals with human characteristics throughout a community- each displaying the emotion.

Showing emotions are something that should be commonly seen. However, I think kids’ feelings should be embraced and encouraged. Often times in my experience adults tell children that their emotions need to be concealed or they cannot express their anger or sadness. I loved how the author was able to compare different animals to a child’s every day life to make their feelings seem more natural. The artwork on each page shows a little boy dressed up as the animal being discussed, as well as exhibiting the feeling. Join Miss Taylor for one of our last Storytimes of the year Join us in person and online for summer reading 'Oceans of Possibilities' in. I really really liked this one and strongly recommend to all parents, teachers and librarians.I absolutely love this book! One each page, the author wrote an analogy comparing an animals’ characteristic to an emotion a child might have felt. Wild Feelings, too, encourages children to explore their feelings and emotions without feeling guilty for feeling. I did find the ending a bit abrupt but it’s probably because I have having too much fun and didn’t want the book to end. Wild Feelings is reminiscent of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are in more than just the animal costumes the kids are drawn in. Each feeling is accompanied by an animal, for example “stubborn as a mule” or as “chicken as a chicken” and this is illustrated by the child being dressed in the accompanying animal costume. My favourite part of the book, though, are the illustrations. The typography is big and bold with the size of the words expressing their meaning.

Let’s start with the prose. The language used is fresh and playful with a healthy dose of onomatopoeia that will delight children when the book is read out loud. This little picturebook concerns itself with the exploration of feelings: wild feelings. Expected publication: August 4th 2015 by Henry Holt and Co.

Wild feelings by david milgrim