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Beautifully presented, I'm going to adapt it for use with my special education pupils. They find it so hard to explain and express themselves. This book
is going to be so nice to talk about.
This is a cute book on feelings featuring the Sunny Bunnies (characters of the kid tv show). Each feeling is assigned a colour to help kids remember the feelings.
A unique feature of this book is each emotion page gives a small paragraph with multiple examples of how the emotion may make you feel. This gives the child more chances to relate and recognize the emotion as it can appear differently depending on the situation. The book identifies positive and negative emotions and uses the last few pages of the book to give strategies on dealing with those negative emotions.
There are chances for discussing the emotions as each page features a question about the child experiencing that emotion, and gives an example of the Sunny Bunnies experiencing the emotion in the TV Show. These multiple examples allow children to relate better to the emotions and recognize them.
Not all the colour choices made sense to me (Fear is purple and surprise is orange) but giving a colour does help the child give a colour even if they can't remember the word for the emotion.
Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings is brightly illustrated reflecting the popular animated series.
My Four Year Old chose this book to review. She enjoyed the illustrations and finding the characters she recognised. She easily identified the feelings described in the book but found the writing rather boring.
I personally found the written delivery robotic and aimed at an older audience than what the animated series tends to pool.
The pictures are on theme and the exercises at the end of the book are good.
I was gifted a digital copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.
"Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings" helps kids learn about emotions. Each page names the emotion, gives examples of how you feel and how your body reacts to the emotion, has a discussion question, and gives a picture example with the Sunny Bunnies. At the end, it gives 4 strategies to use to help control your emotions. It is cute and very informative.
Thank you NetGalley for the ebook! These opinions are my own.
It's funny, upon seeing this book's cover I swear I can hear it. The adorable theme song from the short show played cheerfully through my head while I read through the book.
I liked that the authors displayed the various emotions as colors - a more visual way for young children to understand and view emotions! I especially love the question prompts to the reader/person being read to. This helps foster communication and engagement. The book itself serves as a great foundation for parents or caretakers to begin discussion about emotions and help our kids understand and regulate just what they are feeling.
The page on fear is what made me aware, but every page not only names and describes the feeling/emotion, but also puts words to the physical changes your body can experience. In example, the page on fear describes a faster heart beat and feeling shaky or frozen in place.
It demonstrates healthy ways of channeling our emotion through examples like meditation and yoga. The end of the book gives four exercises to move through emotions. I love this physical example and challenge given to the reader!
This is a book I would use for many ages and think it's beneficial for the adult reading the book as well. I'll be looking for this one on the shelves this fall and gifting it out!
Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings" may revolve around emotional intelligence, helping children develop an understanding of their emotions, learn how to express them constructively, and develop resilience and empathy towards themselves and others.Empathy and Understanding: The book may promote empathy and understanding towards others' emotions. It may emphasize the importance of being kind and compassionate towards others, and how to show support and understanding It is really good book for kids learning.
This fun and vibrant picture book does a fantastic job on teaching each emotion to young readers!
The Sunny Bunnies are expressive and colorful characters that are easy for kids to enjoy.
As a parent, I appreciate that each emotion covers an example of what might make you feel that way and your body's physical response as well. It makes it easier to differentiate each emotion.
The exercises that are included to help kids navigate their emotions in the back of the book is such a great addition!
I love the book and I will definitely recommend it!
My 5 year old son and I read this book together. He really enjoyed the illustrations and the exercises in the back of the book. The concept was good. I liked that the pages described different feelings and then asked the child when they felt what was just described.
Thank you to Carine Laforest and Animation Cafe, Chouette Publishing and NetGalley for allowing us to read this book in advance in exchange for an honest review.
A colourful and concise journey through basic emotions for little ones. Will certainly suggest it to other parents.
This is a fantastic colourful book based on one of my sons favourite programmes to teach him about his feelings. He is 3 years old and we loved going through this together. I also went through it with my 10 and 7 year old who both have autism and they found it really helpful also.
They all loved the bright colours and it created a good discussion and examples of different feelings that we feel in our every day lives.
This book is great for children to get them to open up about their feelings. The illustrations are cute and the descriptions of the feelings are easy to understand and relate to. I also like the activities on the back pages to utilize these feelings we may be experiencing. Great addition to a classroom or home library.
This colourfully illustrated book will be super useful to help children understand emotions especially around body reactions. It’s also nice to include tips for helping deal with these emotions. I think children will be able to relate to the animated film Inside Out which will make it even more accessible.
I hadn't heard about the Disney TV show before I read this Sunny Bunnies book, but I can understand very well how it might appeal to young children. I found the colours and the concept of the book so appealing myself, that I immediately wanted to take a closer look.
Children today are growing up in a very different world from the one that we had to navigate. For one thing, the amount of screen time that they get on average, and the associated dangers, need to be recognised and addressed by the adults around them.
One of those dangers is a potential lack of opportunity to develop adequate social skills. So by teaching children about how to deal with their emotions in a constructive and gentle fashion, this book is teaching them some priceless lessons.
A few observations:
I love that the emotions are colour coded. This make them easier for young children to grasp, and the personification of them in the Sunny Bunnies is just adorable.
The question format used by the books is a really good way to engage young children.
Giving kids options about how to handle their feelings gives them a sense of agency as well as allowing them to pick a choice that best fits their personality.
I think the writer has done a wonderful job of creating a bunch of characters that can be very effective in helping children understand why they feel a certain way, as well as how best to handle those feelings. It's a great book for little kids!
Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings by Carine Laforest, illustrations by Animation Cafe - 5/5
My children and I enjoy any book that lets us talk about and better understand our feelings. I have tried teaching my children that everyone has feelings, and we should always be trying to understand them and learn from this. They love reading a book and expressing how they would feel, what would cause this feeling and how sometimes we let our feelings get the best of us. The illustrations were bright and fun, the feelings were great, and I loved that they had questions on the bag for the kids to answer.
Super cute book for fans of Sun Bunnies. It had great details about different feels and gave examples. We even learned some of the Sun Bunnies names! Haha
This is a super cute book. It would be really helpful to parents trying to explain the different emotions their young children go through. It helps this children develop a connection with how they feel to an explanation.
The illustrations a very vibrant an attractive it allows for the children that are reading/listening to the book to associate the emotions being discussed to a specific image.
The tips at the end are great way to start teaching children how they can respond to the emotions they feel to ensure that they are not overwhelmed.
Thank you NetGalley, Chouette Publishing, and CrackBoom! Books for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.
If you're looking for a book to help explain different emotions to young children then this is definitely it! The pictures are nice and vibrant and the text is easy to understand.
Definitely recommend.
Thank you NetGalley and Chouette Publishing, CrackBoom! books for this ARC of SUNNY BUNNIES: My Book of Feelings by Carine Laforest, illustrated by Animation Cafe.
In this colourful book children learn about feelings through examples and exercises. It’s an adorable concept, easy to understand for children and tangible exercises to practice to change their mood when its not a pleasant situation or to start your day on the right foot. I really enjoyed this book and believe it would be helpful for people around children.
Sunny Bunnies is a really great book to explore emotions and techniques to deal with them. I like assigning colors to emotions, as it makes it easier for children to identify.
Thank you, Chouette Publishing, Carine Laforest, and Netgalley, for an ARC of this book.
This book breaks down each emotion, cause and reaction for smaller kids to easily understand. At the end, it gives exercises to help children control these big feelings when they take over. It's very engaging and interactive. My girls loved it, and the illustrations were cute and fun to look at.