The way I feel

Janan Cain

Book - 2000

Illustrations and rhyming text portray children experiencing a range of emotions, including frustration, shyness, jealousy, and pride.

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Subjects
Genres
Stories in rhyme
Picture books
Published
Seattle, Wash. : Parenting Press c2000.
Language
English
Main Author
Janan Cain (-)
Physical Description
unpaged : col. ill. ; 27 cm
ISBN
9781884734717
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

First-time author and artist Cain treads familiar ground here with a picture book that pales in comparison to Jamie Lee Curtis's subtler and snappier Today I Feel Silly. From scared to shy, bored to jealous, Cain covers the emotional waterfront in a series of rhymes paired with pastel pencil drawings featuring elflike children. The opening spread, "silly" ("Silly is the way I feel when I make a funny face/ and wear a goofy, poofy hat that takes up lots of space"), casts a child in a rainbow-colored clown outfit against a sunny yellow backdrop and heralds the book's main artistic conceitÄa palette picked to suit each mood. "Bored," for instance, is played out on a background of drab tans and browns, while "angry" steams with fiery reds and purples. Though energetic and bright, the cartoonlike illustrations skate close to being strident, while the verses are pedestrian ("Sometimes I feel so very sad and really don't know why./ Instead of playing and having fun, I cry and cry and cry"). Ages 4-8. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Horn Book Review

Pastel-rendered images of futuristic characters are paired with rhymed text in a word book designed to teach children to identify their emotions. The characters are cold and off-putting, a major flaw in a book of this nature. Syrupy text and inconsistent meter are also frequent problems. From HORN BOOK Spring 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.