This book was fine. This is one of those books that feels like it would be used by a teacher in a classroom or somebody in a homeschool. This isn’t one of those books your kids are going to want to read every night before bed.

This book goes through different examples of feelings and how people and those feelings can feel. It discusses body clues and how you can tell what people are feeling. The title of the book is weird though since it is not just about being happy. I thought the fun illustrations helped support the story.

What an incredible little book!

This book did a fantastic job explaining cues to feelings, not only on yourself but in others. Feelings are the hardest part of childhood. Children feel everything we do as adults without any concept on what or why they feel the way they do or how to cope with it.
This book gives great examples on how to manage those feelings.

I would have loved to see the feeling of disappointment and some tips on how to navigate that feeling. In the world of iPads, parents on social media... there is less and less times of disappointment and when were not in tune with a feeling, it can feel frightening.

The illustrations were clear, bright and so sweet!

I also really appreciated the several resource pages in the back for parents.

I enjoyed reading this book. The illustrations were sweet and well-designed. This book is about a young girl learning to cope with her feelings of happiness. Sometimes kids can get so excited about something, they don't realize how to stop and wait. This is a book that can teach children how to understand their feelings and teach parents how to understand their child's emotions. As a parent, I learned some new methods. I will be trying out these methods with my child. I would suggest this book to parents with young children.

Love Always, Catherine

I received an advanced review copy for free. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I really liked this, and think it is a very helpful book for both kids and adults. With a story that lays out ways to identify feelings and tips for adults to use the story while working with kids, this is an excellent addition to any classroom, waiting room, or library collection.

A very early read showing a girl whose life and day out with gran to the festival is a joyful thing. But even when she can be bursting with pride, eagerness, excitement and so on she has to think about her body state and rein her emotions in. This is a read that is reluctant to give any credence to bad emotions, but in showing us how aware we ought to be of our positive ones might give us some clues to coping with those, too. Pitched very well for the very young – and their "caring adult" – this, to this layman, seems a very good early lesson in emotional control and awareness. A strong four stars.

This was a good book to help kids understand their feelings and how to deal with them. Sometimes even happy feelings need help coping with. I like that this book addressed this.

Very cute. I think it has some really good conversation starters and coping skills for kids.

4 stars.

Thoughtfully written. A great book for helping children understand emotions and feelings. Beautiful colors and illustrations.

I received a copy of this eBook for a honest review from netGalley.

I liked that this book explored how your body feels and how you look when you feel happy, excited and proud. I think the tips on starting an emotions book would be helpful for a lot of kids and showing that while these are good emotions they have to sometimes be regulated.

I thought this book was incredibly cute as well as being age appropriate. The writer did a fantastic job at showing different examples of this emotion. I think it’s important for children to recognize how they’re feeling and learn how to express all the different kinds of emotions.

I Know Happy: A book about feeling happy, excited, and proud (We Find Feelings Clues)
by Lindsay N. Giroux
A social learning education book. This book shows how to recognize your feelings. It talks about how your body reacts to positivity emotions. The end of the book has instructions for adults to help children track and understand their feelings. This is a needed text in classrooms.

I think this book is great for toddlers- school age children to help
With their emotions and to point them out. Cute illustrations.

The book is great for school aged children. It helps them identify their emotions and gives strategies on how to regulate them. I also really liked how it gave examples and activities to implement in the classroom.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of Lindsay N. Giroux's excellent new SEL read-aloud, I Know Happy. This explores a little girl's big feelings and how she recognizes them. I love that there are think-aloud questions throughout the book that ask what makes children feel certain ways and how they handle these different emotions. This will definitely become a part of my classroom library as soon as it's published!

I Know Happy
Lindsay N. Giroux (Author)
Alicia Teba Godoy (Illustrator)

Expected publication February 20, 2024, by Free Spirit Publishing

Synopsis
Children learn to recognize and understand the feelings of happiness, excitement, and pride.

A young feelings detective looks for clues, both physical and emotional, to identify happiness, excitement, and pride in themselves and others. The child uses a special notebook to draw their feelings and identify how they feel. By noticing the clues, the feelings detective knows their sister is surprised and their grandma is excited.

We Find Feelings Clues
Increase children’s emotional vocabulary and boost their emotional literacy. This series helps children learn how to find, notice, and use a variety of clues to identify and name their emotions and those of others. Clues are found in facial expressions and body language, sensations within the body, and knowledge of past experiences. After identifying an emotion, children also learn how they can feel better when their emotions are overwhelming. Each book features a child using the tool of the feelings detective notebook to record their feelings through drawings and words. Additional information and strategies on recognizing and dealing with feelings are included at the back of each book.


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A huge thank you to NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I Know Happy - what an intriguing book title. At the age of 25, this children's book made me pause and ask myself if I knew what happiness was. For a book, that is a good thing! It is an attention-getter. With a blank slate and no idea, I dove in. It made me curious what this whole book was all about.

Next, the cover made me all giddy. I like how cute the illustrations were. The only downside is that I am not such a big fan of orange. I would rather have it pink or blue, just a personal preference, but orange seems more fitting for the idea of happiness. Orange IS a happy color.

Right as I started reading the book, the concept of having my own feelings detective notebook was very enticing. The fact that it is not just applicable to young readers but to us adults is mindblowing. I should probably try it and apply it in my life. Until now, the idea is honestly still stuck with me and I cannot help but think about it. This children's book just completely makes sense that I want a hard copy and would recommend it to friends with kids and even adults for a light, quick, and meaningful read. This book was written simply and directly to the point. It doesn't drag or beat around the bush.

"Sometimes it's easy to know how I feel."
"Sometimes it's hard."

Wow. Just wow. And I thought nothing would make this book even more relatable than it already is.

I also like the idea that this book encourages coping, like how the main character is into art. However, I wonder if the main character was left nameless to make it more applicable to all readers, and to make the imagination run wild.

Some parts of the book also include questions like - What activities help you feel happy or calm? When have you felt excited? Simple questions but huge enough to connect and make precious moments with the readers. Other feelings were also introduced, not just happiness, such as excitement, surprise, pride, and delight.

The different locations and characters made the book more interesting. I suppose it was the reason they were added in the first place. It worked. As simple as this book is, it makes such a huge impact.

Another part that I like about this book is that it invokes an author-reader interaction. Whenever the main character takes a deep breath, I do too surprisingly!

Now talking about the Author's Note, I never encountered one like this. I for one encourage exploring emotions at a young age. I am very pleased to have known someone advocating the same principle. Also, the ideas shared by the author at the end of the book are very precise and downright easy to understand. I would love to enumerate all but where is the fun with that? I shall let you experience and discover it yourself.

To the author and illustrator, thank you for a job well done. You delivered.

Overall Rating: An easy 5-star read!

#IKnowHappy #NetGalley

I Know Happy is a wonderful children’s book portraying feelings, and how a younger audience can navigate these emotions.

I’m a teacher of the preschool/kindergarten age, and this book would be a powerful tool for all early childhood age students.

It’s important for children to learn these emotions and how they can relate to them. I like how the book asks questions to make connections to the readers. “When have you felt excited?” “When was a time you felt happy?”

The book also highlights ways children can use coping skills to regulate their body when handling all these different emotions and gives tools for educators and parents, which I appreciate.

The illustrations are beautiful and the words are simple enough that all children can understand and would be fully immersed in.

I recommend this book for parents, teachers, librarians, and therapists/social workers.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this powerful and fun book.

This was a great children's book on feelings! I loved the explanation of how feelings might show in our body and our minds. The illustrations were spot on and beautiful! I also absolutely loved the end where the authors explained how parents can help children understand their feelings and how people express them different ways! So good!

I do storytime at our library. This book would be perfect for a feelings storytime. I love that it has questions on the pages to ask the kids how they feel about certain things for them to interact with the book. And in the back are some suggestions for parents as to how they can explain feelings and that happy is just one feeling that could mean you are feeling other things as well. Very cute book.