While the poems in this book are a lot of fun and really creative, I found the whole thing a bit lacking.

Advertised as a way to discuss feelings with children in a natural way, I expected the poems to address handling the different emotions. Instead, they were about kids (or creatures) who were experiencing feelings like fear or temptation or kindness, but all felt like they ended too soon because none of them went on to talk about dealing with or processing the feelings. Like, instead of one poem saying "this kid is angry and this is how he deals with it," it just stopped at "this kid is angry." I don't know if any of that makes sense, but those were my feelings. As a parent, I definitely would have appreciated poems about feelings that addressed more than just the beginning of the feeling. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Regardless, kids will enjoy these silly poems by Jolie Taylor and delightful illustrations by Brandon Dorman.

*Thank you to Shadow Mountain Publishing for sending me a review copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*