This felt so sincere and genuine. It is such a healthy wonderful take on all the big feelings kids might not yet understand.

Reminiscent of the movie Inside Out. Feelings are depicted as their own characters and incorporated into the story. Great for children learning how to cope with their feelings.

I had my 6 year old daughter read this book to me. She struggled with some of the harder words, but did a great job understanding the concept of the book. Her take away on what this book is about is how Marcy is trying to understand all of her feelings (sad, embarrassed, angry, envious) and why she can’t just always be happy.

This book is very well done and the illustration are even better. I can see this book being included in the classroom and on hand with behavioral specialists.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC for my honest review!

A good book to help children understand emotions . It helps children recognize their emotions, understand emotions and how to handle their emotions..

I would recommend this book for children around 8 - 11 years of age.

I loved this book; absolutely loved and adored it. Allison Edwards’ Marcy’s Having all the Feels did the thing that not a lot of author’s are gifted with and created a realistic children’s story that focuses on feelings and feeling too much and how to deal with all of these wayward emotions for children AND adults!
The illustrations were bright, colorful and entertaining, and the story was engaging with dialogue and explanations for what each feeling represents and how to cope with overwhelming emotions.
I enjoyed that the author embraced the fact that while we all want to be happy every moment of our day, not only is it unrealistic to not feel other emotions, but without feeling other emotions, we would take our happiness for granted.
I personally enjoyed this books interpretations more than the movie Inside Out which I am sure people will compare it to. This book had an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand approach to dealing with your feelings and you don’t have to watch a two hour movie to understand the message. And after you’re done reading it to your child, there are prompts at the end of the story to engage your child with!

I received an ARC from the author and publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This is a fantastic book to discuss feelings and their importance. Marcy just wants to be happy all the time, but has all of the other emotions that keep popping up. The characters remind me of Inside Out with each representing one of Marcy’s feelings.

This book was great for both of my kids-third grade and kindergarten. This book led to discussions about feelings and that everyone would like to just be happy. I think it was a good realization for kids (and a reminder for adults), that just being happy isn't an option. I would love to implement this book for my social skills groups, however school is currently out given COVID-19. When school is back in session, I plan to purchase and use.

This is such educational story about different feelings and accepting all of them. There's very helpful tips for teachers and parents at the end as well. The illustrations are vibrant and vivid, and accompanied the story well. Great picture book to read to children and help them understand their feelings and how to deal with them.

This is a cute book about feelings that is reminiscent of the movie Inside Out. The author explores the idea that it's okay to feel all of our feelings even the ones that aren't as pleasant.

Even though she only wants to be happy, Marcy learns how to cope with and see the bright side in ALL her feelings.

As a teacher, I also appreciated the tips for parents and teachers at the end of the book to give your students/kids strategies to deal with all the feels!


I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I couldn't help comparing this book to the Inside Out movie; although the illustrations were kinda different but the resemblance was undeniable. But overall the book was a nice reminder to children and adults that feelings are equally necessary for the well being of mind and soul; the only thing we should learn is how to take our feelings under control. I liked the book, and also the illustrations.

This is a rather didactic picture book about feelings that will inevitably be compared to the much stronger movie, Inside Out.

Marcy's feelings are personified by little coloured creatures. Unlike in Inside Out, though, she's aware of them. Happy is her favourite, but she doesn't show up nearly often enough. After a rough day, Marcy wishes all her feelings away. But that kind of backfires because Happy disappears as well. After a day without feelings, Marcy welcomes them all back into her life with the understanding that she must take the not-so-great emotions along with the nice ones.

This might have worked had the feelings been developed better as characters. But when they're depicted as separate beings like they are here (and not merely aspects of Marcy's psyche), things can get a little confusing. You'd think Happy would be... well, happy. But she's kind of judgy, and laments early on about how she's tired of being needed. (That's not exactly a happy emotion she's displaying.)

The book is obviously intended to teach, and it pretty much hits the reader over the head with the message. It's a bit boring, and there's a bit too much text. Also, the "Tips for Teachers and Parents" at the back are weird. The way they're worded, they're obviously directed at kids... unless adults need to know how to rate their feelings on a scale of 1 to 10 and walk away to cool off so they don't make bad choices. (Yes, adults need those skills. But they're presented here as new information directed at them... not as something to teach the kids.)

Overall, this seems a bit weak. Inside Out gets the message across better in a much more entertaining way.

This is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers, counselors and school resources working with elementary and middle school students. Would also be a great resource for ELL students learning to cope with feelings, change, etc. The art is beautiful and lively and the writing is just simple enough for any age level to comprehend. Will definitely suggest this as an additional resource at our school.

I thought this book was well written and would consider it for our school library and for our elementary counselor. The only thing that puts me off a bit is the title.

An excellent book for both my children's age groups, it helps my kids put their feelings into perspective and get some understanding as to how to better regulate their emotions in ways that they can control and what is out of their control. Well done!

I cannot express how much I loved this book! It is really hard to teach children how to deal with negative emotions, and this story really does just that. I absolutely adored the illustration style, and the way each emotion was characterized. Of course we all want to just be happy all the time, but we will always need to feel other emotions as well in order to go about our daily life. I am very excited to show this story to my children, as they are both 5 and we have been practicing ways to manage our emotions for some time now.

Read this book to my son today and he loved it. Hes just starting to learn what each of his emotions are called and this was a nice little tie book. Definitely going to buy him a copy soon. Now for the more adult part of the review.

This story book was excellent and I think it will be an excellent way to personify emotions into an easily digestible tale. It reminded me a lot of Inside Out, which was probably the intention. Something that the author might not have considered is how this book cam be used to simplify emotions for kids with disabilities like depression, anxiety, BPD, bipolar, ADHD, and even autism to an extent. This is very inclusive and simple in its descriptions and would have helped me immensely as a kid who grew up with BPD and had no treatment or help.

The art style was gorgeous and the illustrations were so vibrant and beautiful. I really dont have anything bad to say about this story book.

5/5

This is the review I posted on Amazon along with a four star rating. I also added the book to my daughters book wishlist.

This is a very cute book that teaches kids about their feelings. It personifies feelings to create a visual for young children (much like the movie Inside Out did but in a more straight forward way) and tells a story about a little girl who wants her feelings to go away because she only likes Happy and Happy isn't around enough. The book does a good job explaining in simple terms and visuals why it's important for us to feel all of our feelings. My only complaint is that I feel like it misses an opportunity to also explain depression when the little girl has a day with no feelings and doesn't like it. In her case she just asks her feelings to come back and they do, which also oversimplifies depression (and small children CAN have depression and explaining It could be helpful to children who don't have words to explain it) but a few changes, and a couple extra pages, could have used the opportunity to inform children about mood disorders. Feeling nothing and feeling one thing too often are issues children have and I feel like it's a missed opportunity to be informative about that. I do realize that wasn't the books intent, that it just wanted to teach kids that all feelings are important and okay and it does a really good job conveying that message but I can't help but wish they had taken the opportunity to expand on feeling nothing and feeling too much.

A beautifully brightly illustrated book that teaches children that it is normal to feel more than one feeling and that it's perfectly okay to not feel happy all of the time.
The use of the little feeling characters makes the book fun and creates a nice visual in regard to how the main character Macy is experiencing many different feelings.

Marcy's Having All the Feels by Allison Edwards is a book that can help you teach your children how to handle their emotions. When you are a small child, it can be overwhelming to feel big feelings. Read about Marcy's bad day experiencing a whole range of emotions and then realize how much worse it could be without any emotions at all the next day. Then listen to Happy as she explains the need for you to go through a variety of emotions and how to learn to appreciate them all. In the back of the book, there are also three tips on how to describe and handle difficult emotions. The illustrations by Valeria Docampo are engaging and appropriate. In my search for books to assist me in teaching how to appropriately handle yourself in situations that are emotionally difficult, I was excited to find this and add it to my library.

A nice picture book that tackles the challenge of explaining feelings to children, and how Happy is not the only one you want all the time even if it seems that way. I loved the imagery and the use of colors. I thought the message was well constructed and shown through the book.