Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Angry

Education

Loved the book but my 5 yr old son loved it more!

I give this 5 stars because my 2.5 year old loves it. She has half of it memorized and sits and reads it by herself. It is a long book though, with 4-5 scenes lasting a couple pages each. I think it gives good real-life examples that kids encounter or experience.

This was such a godsend honestly my son reads it all the time he is six and just sits down with it without me having to tell him to. It has helped him understand how anger can affect people even grown ups.

In schools and children's libraries across UK there have long been two staple 'anger' books for young children: When I'm Feeling Angry by Trace Moroney and I Feel Angry by Brian Moses. You may recognise them from various primary school PSHE displays (ironically making the book inaccessible to the children!). It's about time we had something fresh to stand next to those faded and battered token books! Feeling Angry by Katie Douglas is destined to become another classic still adorning displays in twenty years time as everyone walks past too engrossed in their kindle to notice.Feeling Angry is a good book to work with young children. Harry, the star of the book, spends most of the book dispensing advice to people around him on how to deal with their feelings when they get angry. I particularly like that this spreads across a number of relatable contexts including parents getting frustrated at no one in particular, siblings throwing a tantrum, parents getting angry with children, playground conflicts, and supporting a friend who is getting angry with themselves. At the end of the book Harry gets angry, which I think shows nicely that even when we know how to manage anger we still get angry and it can be difficult to control! I'm not so sure about the very end though, where Harry is no longer angry but is still refusing to do as asked - it seems a bit off in a book specifically designed to teach children how to behave!The illustrations by Mike Gordon are lovely, and stick to the simple side, which is good to keep focus on the story however I felt some enrichment could have been added with some things to potentially count or name.All in all a good little book, a little pricey for the length and simplicity, but achieves its objective well. Definitely recommended! (and let's face it, we're all looking for an excuse to throw out the water damaged copies of the old books!)