About This Book
What Makes Me Happy? is a gentle and engaging picture book that explores the spectrum of childhood emotions. Through simple, rhyming verse and expressive watercolor illustrations, various children describe what makes them feel happy, sad, angry, or bored. It's designed to normalize these feelings and encourage young readers to identify and articulate their own emotional experiences. This book serves as an excellent tool for parents and educators to initiate conversations about emotional literacy, helping children understand that all feelings are valid and part of growing up.
Children describe in rhyming verse their feelings and what makes them feel different ways.
Discussion Prompts
1
What are some things that make you feel happy? What about sad or mad?
2
Can you think of a time when you felt busy? What were you doing?
3
The book talks about feeling bored. What do you do when you feel bored?
4
How do the children in the book show their feelings with their faces or bodies?
5
What is your favorite feeling to have, and why?
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