Feelings (Reading Rainbow Book)

Yes, the kids in this book express actual feelings: Jealousy, sadness, rage, impatience. They feel them, they acknowledge them, the little birds comment on them. This isn't a book of simple feelings "happy, sad, angry, scared." This is a book of very real, nuanced human feelings and even if we *wish* we didn't have them (or our kids didn't), it seems like most of us do. While the feelings are a bit nuanced, the book is very clear and simple. I can see where people may think it's a great book for little kids (and it probably is), but I read it with my older kids (9&12), or they look at it themselves, and it's a great acknowledgement of real feelings as well as a great discussion starter. We really love this book, but if you are looking for something more clear-cut as an entry point to feelings language, you may want to start with another book (like Todd Parr books or some of the intro feelings book (search feelings and autism and you get a lot of facial recognition books)). And we like those books, too! But this one is just more advanced.

I actually bought this for an adult friend. I hope this never goes out of print. Has simple but authentic storytelling that makes it universal - think Bluey.

This is one of my favorite books to use in my practice with kids. It is easy to follow and VERY kid style. I know some of the previous reviews made some harsh comments on this book but this book allows you to start conversations with your kids to talk about 1) feelings 2) choices and 3) their personal feelings. Aliki is am amazing writer and I can tell you that this has been a favorite I used with my kids and now in working with kids.

It’s hard to compete with iPads, etc, but this book grabs everyone’s attention.This was one of my favorite books to enjoy alone or with my sister when growing up in the 90’s. It teaches compassion, manners and for kids who are too young to know how to read, there are beautifully illustrated segments that they can understand”read” just seeing the emotion and situations the characters are going through. I’ve purchased this book twice and I know that I will buy it again for the kids in my family because of its life lessons and it teaches kids the true value of being kind to others. 😊

Great condition but I’m reading to my daughter I realized the content was very out dated and I skip reading some as it would be unhealthy to encourage stunting emotions, shaming, and telling an infant on the bus is inappropriate to cry loudly haha

Feelings is a great and unusual children's book. It's a thin paperback that offers a lot. There are different stories and styles of writing for each emotion. It's quite clever in depicting feelings with a drawing, a series of drawings like a comic or narrative writing. I bought it for my 8 year old, and it captured her interest and my own. We read it a few times and will continue to pick it up. It's the kind of book that seems simple but you understand it more deeply each time you read it.

I purchased this book based on all the other good reviews. I thought it would be a good way for my 5 year old daughter to understand feelings to a deeper level. I was dissappointed to find many of the bad behaviors modelled in the book did not show the flip side of how the situation would have been better handled.For example, the "what john did" illustration has characters saying things like "You're mean" and "I feel like knocking you down you mean old thing" after he knocked down someone's blocks. Another page has a character saying "I HATE alicia". Hate is a bad word in our house.There's another page in which the girl has stage fright and say's things to herself like "they're all staring at me", "is she laughing at me?", "I wish I could fall through the crack in the floor". My daughter currently isn't afraid of talking in front of a group of others, but I'm afraid she might become very self concious if I read that page to her. On the plus side it does show that the audience is thinking positive thoughts about the girl.There is also a nice illustration/short story about a pet mouse dying which I thought was decent.The format of the book is very confusing for a preschooler. There are intermixed stories and sentences that run right into eachother. Not very easy for my daughter to follow along or read on her own. For example, there's a scary story about a dragon which does not seem to belong and doesn't seem to have much to do with feelings.I think the book was written with good intentions, but it's way off the mark in delivering. I would like a book that is clear and interesting for a young child (not so jumbled with words in all directions), maintains a consistent story line (instead of inserting a dragon story in between a story about knocking over blocks and jealosy of a friends hair), and shows not only the negative behavior, but also a positive way of handling the situation. I also would like for the book to describe the difference between thoughts "I feel [sic] like knocking you down" and true feelings "I feel angry", how the two are related and perhaps some compassionate communication "I feel angry because I think that you don't respect me".I'm hesitant to leave a bad rating, but I feel dissapointed that this book did not live up to my expectations and am returning the book.

It was not age appropriate for a my child, she thought it was a bit silly.