Your child finds a paintbrush that brings everything it paints to life.
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Help topic - big feelings
Personalized books to help with big feelings
For anger, worry and the feelings that arrive faster than the words for them.
The reason big feelings are hard is not that children do not understand them - it is that the feeling arrives long before the language does. A story lends them the language at a moment when nothing is being asked of them. Read on an ordinary evening rather than a hard one, a book about a child who looks like them, feeling the way they felt on Tuesday, gives them something to point at later. "Like in my book" is a genuinely useful sentence for a four-year-old to own.
What to look for
Language borrowed in advance
The words arrive on a calm evening, so they are available on a difficult one.
Distance makes it approachable
A story about a character is easier to enter than a question about themselves.
It gives you a shared reference
"Like in my book" is easier for both of you than starting from nothing mid-meltdown.
13 stories in big feelings
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When the music plays, your child twirls brighter than any star.
Ages 2-8
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Sometimes your child's feelings feel too big to hold, and that is okay.
Ages 2-8
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Boxes, a new front door, and a room that echoes - your child is moving! A warm story about saying goodbye, finding treasure in new corners, and discovering that home comes along with you.
Ages 0-8
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Your child gets a first pair of glasses - and suddenly the world sparkles with details nobody mentioned! A confidence-boosting story about seeing clearly and loving what makes you, you.
Ages 4-8
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The peg with your child's name on it is coming down today.
Ages 2-6
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Yesterday your child was the small one.
Ages 0-8
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A second small bed arrives in your child's room, and at first there is no space for it anywhere.
Ages 2-8
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Everything your child owns is in boxes, and one box is going in the car instead of the van.
Ages 0-8
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Your child lives one way, and someone who loves them lives a long way the other.
Ages 2-8
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New shoes, a packed bag, and a gate that has to be walked through alone.
Ages 2-6
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The house is louder, the days are different, and your child is suddenly the big one.
Ages 2-6
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Somebody has been at the chocolate cake, and your child happens to be standing right beside the evidence, looking very innocent indeed.
Ages 4-8
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Common questions
Will a book help with tantrums?
It can help afterwards, by giving you and your child a shared way to talk about what happened. It will not stop one in progress, and any book that claims otherwise is overselling.
What age is this collection for?
Mostly two to six, which is when feelings routinely outrun vocabulary. The reading level is set during setup, so the same story works at either end.
Is there a personalized big feelings book with my child in it?
Yes. When I Feel Big Feelings is drawn from one photo of your child, with their name throughout, for ages two to eight. It goes in three steps a child can copy: the feeling arrives like a storm, they breathe slowly like the sea, and the storm settles without anyone saying the feeling was wrong. You see the cover and the first chapter free before you pay.
How is it different from a regular big feelings picture book?
A published big feelings book shows a character your child watches. Here the child having the storm is drawn as your child, so the breathing step is something they have already seen themselves do. That is the point of personalising this one subject: "like in my book" is easier to say when the book is about you.
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Will it actually look like them?
Deep brown skin, tightly coiled hair
Fine, fair, barely-there hair
Straight black hair with a fringe
Curly ginger hair and freckles
Round glasses
Long braids with beads
A visible hearing aid
A baby with no hair
Skin tone, hair texture and freckles all carried through. See it up close
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