I Am Okay to Feel

Kids feel a lot of emotions, and sometimes it's hard to understand why they feel different things. This book does an excellent example of showing how situations can cause emotions and what our reactions mean! I loved this book, and think it's a great resource.

Thank you to NetGalley and Zando Projects for the opportunity to read, rate , and honestly review this ARC.

I loved this book for many reasons. One was the representation it will offer to my black students. Another is normalizing talking about feelings and some of the ways we can work though negative ones.

This will definitely be a read for my class as soon as it is published. Thank you!

Thanks NetGalley for the preview!

This was a sweet book about feelings! I especially liked the use of deep breathing to help calm down and process your feelings. The emotional resources at the end were a very nice addition to the story.

This is a wonderful picture book. The illustrations do a really good job going along with the feelings of our character. We see him experience differing feelings and his dad helping him work through it.
I really liked how vibrant the illustrations are!
I liked all the resources at the end too.
A great book to share and read together.

Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!

The illustrations in this were adorable, and I think this will be a great resource for parents and educators to teach children about their feelings.

A very sweet picture book about feelings and how to not let them overwhelm us when they aren't all happy and joyful. This is a really great book to explain more in depth ways to help children (and adults) shift their racing thoughts.

An excellent book on the fact of impermanence and how mindful awareness can help one to embrace and enjoy the process of change, even if it comes with difficulty.

This is a wonderful book for young children. It shows a father and child outside enjoying time together on a beautiful day. They talk about what makes them happy and what they like to do when they are happy. A storm approaches and the child feels scared. The father guides the child on accepting all feelings and how to deal with being scared. This book is beautifully illustrated. It shows the connection between thoughts and feelings and the importance of recognizing our uncomfortable feelings. Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy in return for my honest opinion.

This fabulous book discusses the importance of feelings and what to do when feelings get overwhelming. In the context of a walk through the park which quickly becomes a scary thunderstorm, Karamo and his son discuss happy, sad, angry and scared. Karamo reminds his son (and the reader) that all feelings are valid and gives his son some strategies to use to help calm himself when the feelings get to be too much. There are great lessons to help anxious children and help validate all feelings. I would highly recommend this book to parents and teachers of children in the age 3-9 range. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book!

YES 👏🏻 THIS 👏🏻 BOOK 👏🏻

I absolutely love this book so much. Books that focus on allowing children (& adults, especially males) to express and really feel their emotions are much needed in this world. The way in which Karamo allows his child to feel his emotions and guides his child to express them on their own terms is so beautiful.

AND the addition of resources and activities to help children in expressing them in a healthy way makes this our new FAVE book. I cannot wait to purchase this for myself & our local libraries. We will be SCREAMING our recommendation of this book from the rooftops because every child needs this book (& honestly so do their parents, caregivers & educators).

Thank you so so so much NetGalley & Zando Projects for allowing us to read this advanced copy! And a special thank you to Karamo Brown and Jason “Rachel” Brown for writing this book— it’s going to help so many people!

As a long time fan of the Queer Eye franchise, and of the wise and charismatic Karamo Brown, I was thrilled to sit down and read this book with my 6-year-old daughter. The illustrations are extremely engaging and visually lovely. The images of the father and son were filled with joy, love, and understanding all conveyed so gently within in the pages.

I found the way they spoke to one another to be so validating and refreshing. My daughter was really interested in discussing how a thought turns into a feeling which turns into a behavior. This was a highlight for us because it did what we hope books will do, open the door for a deeper discussion that enriches our emotional understanding of each other.

It's impressive when such a short book is able to resonate so quickly. When Karamo's son is feeling scared, he asks "What would make you feel safe right now?", and I immediately added that to my arsenal of gentle parenting to use with my own child.

I loved this book about teaching young children how to handle big emotions!! Beautifully illustrated and highly recommended!! As a librarian this would be at the top of my books to buy list!! Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

This book is beautifully written and illustrated. I will be buying and recommending this one for years to come. The approach to feelings and allowing children the healthy attitude to acknowledge what they feel is much-needed.

A young boy talks with his father about his emotions. They discuss positive and negative feelings and how it is okay to feel the way we do. His father shows the boy strategies to help him calm down when faced with fear or anger.

Read the book to promote discussions on feelings, self-management, self-awareness, it's okay to feel different emotions and dialogue.

"It's hard to think and feel at the same time."
I have adored Karamo Brown's work for a while now, and this latest installment is just as wonderful. A brief tale of a father and son, exploring the different feelings we have and affirming that it's never wrong to have a feeling. The additional resources in the back/at the end and especially the Emotions Wheel are excellent too! Even as an adult I learned more, and it is written in such a way that parents and teachers would have an easier time discussing feelings and breathing through them.

This was exactly the sort of book I expected from Karamo ❤️ I am okay to feel seems mainly geared towards young boys, but can be read and enjoyed by anyone! Kids need books like this to learn from a young age that all emotions are okay to feel. It's ok to be scared and it's okay to be emotional. Books like this one give me so much hope for future generations.

Thanks to NetGalley and Zando Projects for letting me read an advanced ebook.

Jason and his Dad, Karamo, are outside together when Jason expresses that he is happy. and he articulates what makes him feel this way. When he begins to feel something very different and doesn't quite have the words, his Dad gives him the space, the example and the language to explore what he is feeling and then express his needs. His calm, patient reassurance allows Jason to not only voice his emotions but to know that every feeling is important.

This book is brilliant and one I will return to again and again. A fantastic resource to help children, and adults, to know that all feelings are for feeling. Truly beautiful illustrations and typography that really support the storytelling. There is a brilliant final section that gives further resources and activities for parents/carers and children to try to both continue their emotional development. I have taken some advice from this as a parent and will be using it to also support my daughter.

Highly recommend for any parent/carer and adult working with children. To be honest, even if you don't work with children, this book is super powerful. It might just be the voice you need to know it is okay to feel.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for gifting me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a beautiful book!

The colors are vibrant and the illustrations whimsical and sweet. The story is told through a conversation between a father and child. As they go on a walk, the weather changes and they talk through several emotions and what they can do to feel better.

It clearly shows the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers a compassionate explanation of those things and how we can keep our thoughts and feelings from leaking out into uncontrollable actions.

I can't wait to show this to my kiddo (8) who struggles with his thoughts and feelings and behavior. I think he will really connect with it. I would definitely recommend it to any parent whose child is struggling and to elementary school classrooms where I suspect it could come in very handy.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Zando Projects for providing an e-arc for review.

"It's hard to think and feel at the same time."

This is SUCH an important line in this book. As a special educator, dealing primarily with students with social-emotional learning goals, we ask them all the time "why do you feel this way" and "what will help?" without realizing that these little humans are still trying to figure out how to just identify their feelings!

Then the book goes on to give the most basic of advice - breathe. move.

The illustrations are gorgeous. The writing is simple, but so thoughtful and effective. This is a book I would purchase for my class in a second.

This is such a wonderful way to open the conversation on feeling your emotions, with your children or family members! Beautifully illustrated, with a beautiful message and the love radiates from the pages. I will definitely be purchasing this for my own kids in the future as I think it can help a lot in understanding ourselves, our kids and everyone around us

Great book! Love the illustrations and easy to understand words. Great job at explaining how feelings work and working to normalize all feelings!

From one of my favorites, Karamo Brown from Queer Eye, this one is all about encouraging children and letting them know it’s okay to express and voice their emotions, feelings, and anxieties. A story about a father and a son caught in a storm and their attempt to navigate through the storm despite the uncomforting circumstances and bad weather and uncertainty, this one is a metaphor for the bigger theme of this lovely children’s book. Bonus: This one is interactive as well with some fun activities for the kiddos once they’ve made it through their daily reading.

Any book that encourages ways for children to not only accept feeling, but includes ways to manage them are golden in my my.

The fact that this book features a father son duo is even better. Young boys need to know that they don't need to hold emotions in and that they are allowed to show their feelings.

The resource and activities pages are the sprinkles on top of a cupcake. Easy to use with your child and extremely user friendly for the adult to understand.

Thank you Netgalley for allowing me to review this ARC. My opinions are completely my own

This is a wonderful read for kids to help them identify, embrace, and process their feelings. It helps kids understand how our thoughts can become feelings, which can then become behavior. It is reassuring and affirming that feelings are both valid and also not forever. I LOVE that this lesson in emotional awareness is modeled by a man for his son.

There are helpful resources at the end, including a feelings wheel and prompts for things to talk about. It would be a great classroom read for SEL for pre-K and early elementary. This would be an excellent addition to school, classroom, and community libraries.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!