I love books that help my kids understand emotions! This is a great one! Anger is an emotion kids feel negative about having, however, it is 100% ok to feel anger (and normal I might add). Thank you for creating a book that gives parents a space to have a great conversation about anger and emotions. This book would be great at home or at school as a read aloud or one on one.
The graphics and illustrations are fun and full of emotion. Even adults need this book :) Thank you, Jessica Sinarski for this book!

I am always here for more books like these that help students explore their emotions. This is definitely one I will want for all the kids in my life.

The story of the three students and their feelings is relatable and valid. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy.

A delightfully simple exploration on anger, Sinarski has created a book with a focus on social-emotional vocabulary. Tackling all five SEL core competencies, it touches on self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness, and relationship skills.

Sinarski creates a fantastic visual for students, relating the emotions they carry inside them like having a backpack full of feelings. When a bright red book won't stay in the backpack, the students have a chance to explore the feeling of anger. They start to understand that anger is a complex emotion and often has many other feelings connected to it, such as sadness or fear. They learn that when someone acts out in an angry manner, it could be because they were embarrassed or their feelings were hurt.

This story was both entertaining and educational, which can be a tricky balance to maintain in a children’s book, and I will be suggesting it to teachers whenever possible. Incorporating topics such as this into children's picture books is a tried and true way to teach important life skills in a way that is fun. This would be an amazing addition for classrooms, libraries, counselling offices and more.

Thanks NetGalley for the preview!

This book contained many metaphors about anger and why we experience it. I liked the chant to find out where your anger comes from! I felt like it was a little advanced for young students.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed the message this book was trying to convey, however there are parts of the book that would be a bit confusing to children.

A very good resource for teachers and counselors. Sinarski gives school time examples of anger, then uses a fun storyline of being backpack detectives to explore other emotions that can be the underlying cause for the anger.

The way this book is written makes it an excellent way to approach the topic of anger and behavioral problems with students and even our own children. Examples of students and their teacher showing anger in different situations and how the body can react to anger are explained. The teacher leads a discussion to help identify what caused her outburst and what underlying emotions are at the root of her angry reaction. Then the students who got angry explore the reasons they got mad. The teacher gave them a short rhyme to help them work through future situations on their own.

The storyline and illustrations are catchy and entertaining for readers ages 7-12. “Tips for Caring Adults” are included at the end of the book.
This book provides a very effective way to start a conversation with a child that is exhibiting anger in elementary or middle school.

I received this book from the author/publisher free of charge, with no expectation of a positive review.

This is an interesting. Much like the Boy’s Town Press the reader is given an issue and a way to deal with it, which is been repeated by example at least three times. However, in this book there is this magic backpack concept with each book in the backpack reflecting a different emotion. I think concept is a hard to follow and the story is confusing because of it. The concept is great for an educational setting, but I think in general is does not work very well.

Hello, Anger is a great short story about emotions and how they can weigh on us throughout our day. It teaches kids that emotions come in all different forms and often times, people share similar emotions. I think the story is an easy to understand comparison between tangible objects vs internal feelings. I loved how not only the kids took time to reflect on their emotions and how it was effecting their day but their teacher did as well, showing that adults can experience different emotions as well.

This story was perfect. I loved the message and it was easier to follow even for a younger child. It allowed me to explain to my kid about his feelings under the anger when he acts out and the rhyme is GREAT. I will for sure help him memorize it and make him think of it every time he gets mad or frustrated. I really loved this book. The art was great too!

I want to thank NetGalley for giving me a digital copy of “Hello, Anger” to review.

This book looks at the roots behind our anger and encourages you to pause an evaluate what’s causing these feelings. It follows a teacher and her students as they process all of the reasons they had been angry throughout the day.

This is a helpful book for helping students identify and understand their emotions. I enjoyed the illustrations, but the writing wasn’t up to par for me. It was good, but not great.

Overall, I would recommend this book to teachers who need a guide for their students on how to process emotion, but I didn’t like it enough to purchase for my home collection.

I WANT THIS BOOK! It was so informative, with great language to recognize, accept, and work out our feelings in a smart, healthy way. We were on socio-emotional stuff in our classroom and this series could be a great tool to benefit the learning. I plan to read more from this series in the future!

I think this book is very relevant to today's society. A lot of times, people--especially children--don't know how to control their anger. Often times, we act quickly when we are angry. And this book does an excellent job on explaining one way to process our emotions, not just anger. I'm not a big fan of the books symbolizing emotions, but the message is pretty clear to me.
Also, a bonus in this book is that there's a lot of representation! Different skin tones and hair types. There's even a girl with a disability as well! Love that about this book.

As an adult I found this book very helpful, which is added by the fact not only are the children learning in the book about their anger but the teacher is too!! Everyone can learn, no matter if you're young or old, and that is such an essential lesson to teach as much as the dealing with the anger itself.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and Jessica Sinarski for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

As educators we hear all the time how the pandemic has impacted our students socially and emotionally. This past year many teachers saw more anger than in previous years. This book is a timely godsend.

Thanking your anger and understanding that it is there to protect you from harder emotions is mind blowing. Getting to the crux of the matter, what’s hiding under that anger, is paramount.

This book will give teachers the ability to mobilize their student bodies to ask that question and help unpack what it was that was really causing the issues. I certainly wish I had this book earlier in my career. I cannot wait to share it with my colleagues and my students. Thank you so much !

“Stop when I’m furious.
Pause and be curious.
What is underneath the mad?
Am I Lonely, Stressed, or Sad?”

As an elementary school counselor, I love how Hello, Anger invites children to think about the underlying reasons that could be causing their angry feelings. This book would be great for the upper elementary crowd-2nd/3rd grade and up (the concept of magic backpacks and unpacking their feelings as physical books would most likely be over the heads of younger students).

I loved how the author showed different scenarios of students (and their teacher) being angry as well as the physical sensations they had (ie. Ben’s face was hot, Ana’s hands balled up into fists). I also appreciated that all of the students came up with a solution with how they could handle their situations that made them feel angry next time.

The illustrations were inclusive of different races and abilities (I loved that one of the students had a prosthetic leg!).

There is also tips for Caring Adults at the end of the story to help adults help children deal with anger.

Thank you to the publisher and Net Galley for the advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review

This book can help a reader explain to children how a person’s feelings can weigh them down like a heavy backpack. This representation of the students’ weighed down in the illustration is a relatable visual for elementary age students. The children in the story are directed to look underneath the anger book in their bags and discover the feelings that caused it. Each feeling is described and validated. While students recognize their reasons for their feelings, reconciliation is made and everyone is happy. The way the book is laid out is a great way to teach students to talk about their feelings and problems with others in a way that is not threatening to others.

I loved this book. I would recommend it to parents and teachers as a way to explain to children about their feelings.

I really appreciate how this book uses the imagery of carrying a heavy backpack to highlight the various emotions that we are all carrying around at any given moment. The author tells the story of a school where the students and teacher are “backpack detectives” who need to unpack their emotional baggage (emotion labeled books) to get to the root issue. The backpack might be filled with embarrassment, frustration, or loneliness books but the anger book rises to the top and hides all the other emotion books. We must dig deeper into our backpack to discover the real emotion that’s hiding behind anger. Readers of all ages can utilize this tool to process emotions and help them express the real emotion rather than just automatically resorting to anger. Young readers will particularly appreciate that the teacher is the first to unload her baggage and admit that she used anger to hide her real feelings. This would be a good book to add to a Social Emotional Learning lesson at school or to read with your children at home to start or continue the dialogue about using anger as a shield to hide our true emotions. I read this with my children as I think the lesson is important but I could tell they wished the actual story was a little more exciting. I do think they grasped the concept though, so I would recommend it to other parents and educators.

Thank you to NetGalley and National Center for Youth Issues for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

As a parent of a child who has strong emotions, this was such a good read. It helped me as a mother as well as my son. I’ve been working on emotional regulation and will be adding this to our collection as well as my office at the college and my therapy practice.

This book should be in every classroom! What a clever way to discuss hard emotions. The illustrations are well done and the story is engaging! The publisher made a copy of this book available on Netgalley. This review is my honest opinion.