Lindsay N Giroux, Alicia Teba Godoy
Children learn to recognise and understand the feelings of happiness, excitement, and pride.
A young feelings detective looks for clues, both physical and emotional, to identify happiness, excitement, and pride in themselves and in others. The child uses a special notebook to draw their feelings and identify how they feel. By noticing the clues, the feelings detective knows their sister is surprised and their grandma is excited.
Taking an active learning approach, this book helps teach children the emotional intelligence skills of noticing and using clues to their feelings and those of others. It also offers strategies for children to use when they are happy, excited, and proud, including making and using a journal for recording their emotions.
Increase children's emotion vocabulary and boost their emotional literacy. This series helps children learn how to find, notice, and use a variety of clues to identify and name their emotions and those of others. Clues are found in facial expressions and body language, sensations within the body, and knowledge of past experiences. After identifying an emotion, children also learn how they can feel better when their emotions are overwhelming. Each book features a child using the tool of the feelings detective notebook to record their feelings through drawings and words. Additional information and strategies on recognizing and dealing with feelings are included at the back of each book.
"When kids can name what they feel, they are better able to navigate their emotions. We Find Feelings Clues is a lovely series that helps kids become 'feelings detectives, ' looking at clues to help them figure out what they are feeling and why. Each book offers multiple opportunities for kids and adults to pause and talk about their own feelings--making space for vital conversations that will help kids grow."
- Deborah Farmer Kris, parent educator, author, and founder of Parenthood365