I+Have+Feelings!

**Author Biography:**
====Jana Novotny Hunter was born in Czechoslovakia, and grew up in England. Jana graduated from Hornsey College of Art, and spent many years in America working as a teacher and Textile Designer. Jana has written over fifty books for children, but has about forty published. Jana was the author of the prize-winning book, 'Read My Lips', about of a deaf girls struggle to be able to speak. Jana now lives by the River Thames with her dog, and she enjoys playing the piano. ====

**Summary of Book:**
====I Have Feelings is a book that explains the different types of feelings including happy, sad, angry, and excited for younger children to understand more clearly. It is about a mouse and his family members who go through the day experiencing the different types of feelings. The illustrations are wonderful at explaining every picture, and every feeling the mouse and his family are going through. Each page is a specific feeling, and for each feeling the mouse explains how he is feeling during each emotion. ====

**Analysis:**
====This book is based off the different feelings a person can experience in a day or through life on a daily basis. This book will help children understand what each feeling is and how each one feels when experiencing them. The illustrations in this book are excellent and very clear for children to see and understand which feeling is being represented to make proper connections. This book is great to use in the pre-school and kindergarten classrooms, and is very appropriate for their age groups. It is important for children to understand the different types of emotions and feelings. Children should be able to understand why they are sad, or why they are happy. This book has a lot of informational meaning for children and is universal because all humans experience feelings. ====

**Book Review:**
====I personally really enjoyed reading this book, and reading this book to my classroom full of kindergarteners. They really loved all the emotions and illustrations. It is important for children to understand the different feelings that an individual can feel, and that it is okay to have different feelings. The illustrations are great at showing each feeling in detail. There are many activities you could do with this story, and students will be very engaged in the story and activity. You could have students predict on each page using the pictures, what the mouse and his family are feeling. I would definitely recommend this book to any pre-school or kindergarten teachers, who want to explain to their class the topic of feelings and or emotions. ====