The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings

by Jolie Taylor, Brandon Dorman Narrated by Jolie Taylor

Overview

40 fun poems that explore big feelings and emotions. This whimsical journey through verse and illustrations can help children recognize and understand their big emotions.

From the imaginative minds of Brandon Dorman, renowned illustrator of Goosebumps, Land of Stories, and Fablehaven, and Booktok creator Jolie Taylor comes a whimsical illustrated collection of poems about feelings for newly independent readers.

This beautifully crafted book of forty short stories in rhyme ranges from a dragon's fiery bursts of boredom to the gentle tones of an older sister's love for her sibling with Down syndrome. This creative collection of tales is not only a powerful resource for children who are fostering a lifelong love of reading-it's also a delightful portal for them to understand and celebrate the richness of human emotions.

Editorial Reviews

Kansas National Education Association

Selected as a “top pick” and “recommended title” by the Kansas National Education Association’s Reading Circle Commission

Foreword Reviews

Foreword INDIES 2024 Finalist – Juvenile Nonfiction Category

Kirkus Reviews

2024-06-15
Lighthearted verses, many presented in graphic format, feature siblings, monsters, wild creatures, flights of fancy, and daring deeds.

In breezy, loose-jointed rhymes, Taylor moves freely between quotidian and fantasy settings. A sibling’s indignant rejection of a suggestion that little brother Max is “really slow” (“Others see what Max can’t do / but I see what he can”), for instance, is followed by a ballad of a lad so indecisive that he spends 100 years in front of a vending machine and a teacher’s gleeful revelation that she has hairy “monster feet.” The titular theme, which extends to specific labels for many of the poems and a “Feeling Index” at the end, not only includes non-emotions such as “Peer Pressure,” but also arbitrarily assigns just one feeling even to entries that contain several…and sometimes getting it wrong to boot. Still, in a mix of lavishly detailed sequential panels and enveloping single-page illustrations, Dorman catches all sorts of fantastical creatures, joining a large, racially diverse cast of children (including one young wheelchair user) in brisk action. Readers will find them all stimulating company—even a “humdrum” dragon bored with blasting castles who decides to take up a more peaceable hobby (knitting) and the Laziest Lady Ever: “But some people may argue my talent’s a bore / since I’ve laid here so long my face stuck to the floor.”

Strains to fit what feels like a forcibly imposed theme but should nevertheless find fans.(Poetry. 9-11)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940191001302
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	09/25/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	Up to 4 Years

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