The Growing Hearts series celebrates the milestones of a toddler’s emotional development, from conquering fears and expressing feelings to welcoming a new sibling. It will not only help your little boy or girl understand his or her feelings, but you may also hear, “Read it again! Read it again!” when you think it’s time for bed. previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. With whimsical illustrations and an irresistible die-cut heart that extends through each spread, this gorgeously packaged and unique feelings book is sure to become a storytime and bedtime favorite. Books by Jo Witek (Author of In My Heart) Books by Jo Witek Jo Witek Average rating 4.12 4,664 ratings 691 reviews shelved 9,394 times Showing 30 distinct works. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions. By Jo Witek, Christine Roussey, ISBN: 9781419713101, Hardcover. Our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. celebrate feelings in all their shapes and sizes in this full-color picture book from the Growing Hearts series! Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness. “Evocative imagery, popping with bright colors.” - School Library Journal “Childlike drawings evoke each feeling with a playful style.” ― Publishers Weekly 317 likes, 9 comments - Elementary Arts (elementaryarts) on Instagram: In My Heart by Jo Witek, is part of the Growing Hearts series focusing on emotions. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.“A must-have for any storytime.” ― Kirkus Reviews

Throughout the representative illustrations-a bright yellow star to represent happiness, an elephant to represent sadness, a silhouette of the Big Bad Wolf to represent fear-a series of heart cutouts, ever decreasing in size, appears on the pages, until the heroine is able to find her feelings everywhere.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek is a book for younger children about the many different feelings we can feel.

The book pairs brief verbal explorations of emotions with evocative imagery, popping with bright colors against the effectively used white background. The approach still works, especially when the feelings evoked have such child-friendly imagery ('My heart is yelling, hot and loud,' the child narrator explains).

Seuss's My Many-Colored Days (Knopf, 1998), don't count that against it. PreS-Gr 1-Although this picture book exploration of feelings takes a similar list-and-describe approach to that of Jamie Lee Curtis's Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day (HarperCollins, 2007) and Dr.