Sometimes I Feel Like a Mouse: A Book About Feelings - Softcover
A child imagines becoming a variety of animals while experiencing different feelings, a howling wolf for sad, a soaring eagle for proud, a stomping elephant for bold, and others.
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From School Library Journal:
PreSchool-- Everything about this book is soft and fuzzy--its approach, its focus, and its execution. In an attempt to introduce the wide range of human emotion in a nonjudgmental way, an everychild narrator of indistinct gender describes a dozen positive and negative feelings that children routinely experience and juxtaposes them with counterparts from the animal kingdom. "Sometimes I feel like a horse galloping BRAVE." Herein lies the problem. The similies offered make it sound as though a wolf cries because it's SAD, a hiding mouse is SHY, and soaring eagles are PROUD. The simple repetitive text, therefore, comes off as cliched rather than informed, and the warm, glowing acrylics, while attractive, are more dreamlike than representational. I'm O.K., you're O.K. this book's sentiments are O.K. However, Aliki's Feelings (Greenwillow, 1984) presents a more complete, crystal-clear, and commanding overview of the subject. --Luann Toth, School Library Journal
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Publishers Weekly:
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The latest offering from the creators of Night Call and Vegetable Soup seems more like a pep talk on self-esteem ("There is no such thing as a right or wrong feeling") than a fully realized picture book. There is no linear narrative, and readers don't really know who "I" is. Each feeling (shy, bold, sad, happy) is correlated with that of an animal, as a nameless boy in overalls expresses himself. Spowart's typically shadowy, vague illustrations seem a bit dour here, though properly moody and unthreatening. At the back of the book all the feelings are shown rebus-style, allowing youngsters to see how far they have traveled emotionally. Though the book will strike some as rather artificial in both concept and execution, it may prove a useful part of early psychological explorations. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0606098739
- ISBN 13 9780606098731
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1
- IllustratorSpowart Robin
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