Olive All At Once

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of Olive All At Once by Mariam Gates. This is a perfect SEL read-aloud because it validates every child's feelings, no matter how complex or "mixed-up". The illustrations are captivating and the message is presented loud and clear.... it's always ok to feel how you're feeling, even if sometimes you can't understand all of the emotions yourself. Can't wait to see this on my classroom library shelf!

This was a really well written book about feelings. It has gorgeous illustrations and it has representation with people of different skin colors. Often times, I find that children's books have one skin color in its illustrations. Olive has a lot of emotions and the book shows Olive going through her day to day life and it explains her emotions. It also explains to children that it is okay to have a mix of emotions.

This was a fun book to read with my son. It was a great way to learn about different emotions and that it is okay to feel two emotions at the same time. The illustrations are bright and colorful. I enjoyed the use of color to represent the different emotions.

This is a nice SEL title, I would definitely read and use in storytime. It's an approachable way to talk about different feelings and models different ways to express feelings.

This book is about a girl named Olivrand her first day of school. This book also describes all the emotions that she goes through in different situations. The illustrations are beautiful. I highly recommend this book.

This is a great book about feelings and emotions. It explains how you can feel more than one emotion at once. I will definitely be reading this to my 5 year old who sometimes has a hard time expressing her emotions.

This is very sweet and will help children to better understand their increasingly complicated emotional responses to the world around them.

What an excellent book to use in order to help young children understand their complex emotions. I hope parents and school guidance counselors will discover this colorful and appealing picture book.

I LOVED the illustrations of this book. The colors are so vibrant and beautiful and I know kids would be attracted to the pictures, Books about feelings are so important for growing emotionally intelligent kids and I loved the way Olive's feelings are all explored. It felt slightly disjointed, but I think kids would like it.

This book came at the perfect time, my little guy has been having big emotions recently so we have been trying out a few books about emotions, and I love this one! Most of the books we have read don’t really mention how you can feel conflicting feelings at once and this books does it so well! My little guy loved the artwork as well! Such a good read!

Olive All at Once would be a great addition to any classroom’s SEL curriculum. Olive shares that it’s ok to have conflicting feelings. That we might feel delighted AND jealous at a friend’s birthday party. This is so important for children to understand - that we have many feelings and sometimes they get jumbled up!

This was cute and sweet. And extremely short. Took me less than 5 minutes to read it. Great for kids, and a good lesson for adults too.

Cute book about feeling more than one emotion at the same time and understanding your feelings. I loved the illustrations and the different scenarios Olives went through in the book.

Another great children’s book! I read this to my newborn so it may have been over her head lol, but I know my toddler would love it. It’s kind of hard to read by ebook, but maybe that will be cleared up / made easier come pub time. I loved the lessons it taught, and how it went back and forth between the narrator and Olive herself. I’m sure the physical book is absolutely adorable.

The story was cute and it is easy for children to grasp the concept of. Olive is a little girl who is coming to terms with the different feelings she has.
This book gives aid to children who are beginning to grasp that it is ok to have multiple feelings at the same time.
This is a perfect story time read for parents and teachers. I do think if young children were to read this on their own, it may be a struggle to understand the difference between Olive’s dialogue and the narration. Otherwise it is a great story.

What an awesome read for little ones who are struggling with naming their emotions. Especially when they have more than one emotion going on at the same time. Perfect for my kindergarten age son. The illustrations are bright and colorful. The book held his attention with situations he can recognize.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I thought this book was incredibly cute as well as being age appropriate. The writer did a fantastic job at showing the different emotions throughout the story with examples but with setting the story up fantastically with the different emotions stated at the very beginning!

This book explains how children can feel more than one emotion at a time. I loved the conversation between Olive and the narrator. That was fun! The illustrations were colorful and helped tell the story while not being too overwhelming. This book would be an excellent addition to an elementary school library or in a school counselor’s office.

Thank you NetGalley and Sounds True for the advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

This book is filled with big emotions. It would be great for kids to read to understand all the mixed emotions we feel and that it's ok. The images were nice and colorful. It touched on a lot of issues a small child might experience.

This is a great book to help young children understand their emotions. It also shows that it's okay to have several emotions at once. The illustrations are very cute as well. This is a wonderful book for little ones.

Feelings are sometimes hard to understand. I like how this book talks about all the different feeling you can feel not just by themselves but at the same time. What a great book to help kids cope with their ever changing feelings.

This book is about an adorable little girl who feels her feelings all at once. She learns how emotions aren’t always binary and can be mixed together at any point of the day. It can be used as a great conversation starter with your little one or a classroom full of feelings. I highly recommend adding it to your collection for any pre-school or elementary age targeted library.

Thank you so much to Sounds True Publishing and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

Olive has feelings, lots of them but sometimes she feels them together and all her emotions become a jumble with too much going on.

This was such a perfect way to showcase to children the ways emotions can overcome you in multiple ways, how you can feel one important feeling and another will come join it even if you don’t want it there.

I liked the story, Olive was adorable and how she kept talking to the storyteller to share exactly what emotions she was feeling and why she was feeling them. She was so sweet, I liked the way everything was explained and the adorable illustrations along with it all.

This is a great book to share with children, it’s a good way to be teaching about emotions but in a fun and easier way. I really enjoyed this sweet book and how easy it would be for children to understand and follow along with it.

This is a cute story about Olive, a preschooler, who experiences a range of emotions. Sometimes she has conflicting emotions. The illustrations are engaging and the situations are familiar to small children and their families. The story has several vignettes that might stimulate conversations and emotions and behaviors, both positive and negative. I think this would be a great addition to a family, daycare, or preschool library. I thank NetGalley and Sounds True for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Olive all at once is a story of a young girl, Olive. It's her first day at school and she is excited as well as nervous. And it makes her wonder how she feels two opposite feelings at the same time.

This is cute and adorable little story which will help young kids to overcome fear of first day of school.

Thank you Netgalley and sounds true publishing for ARC in exchange of an honest review.

This was cute, and I liked the message. Olive is a likable main character with very relatable problems and feelings for a girl her age. Her book would be a good way to teach children about conflicting emotions.

This is a beautifully illustrated book for children to help them understand their emotions. So many books will talk about various emotions, but this one deals with the reality that we will have contradictory emotions at the same time. Children need help understanding that they may be happy and jealous at the same time.

This is a great picture book about emotions and how we can have contradicting emotions at the same time - it's a great book to open discussions with the little one about emotions, identifying them and understanding them.

There is no narrative story per se, the book follows Olive and a narrator as they narrate how Olive is feeling in various situations, to which Olive reply about the other emotions she has. It's a funny dialogue.

The illustrations are very cute too, brightly coloured but in a harmonious way.

This book is a mix of learning and fun, easy to read, amazing illustrations.
I think this book will show to the children emotions and help them understand them. Overall, I think kids will love it.

Great little book that opens up the converstiaon of the complexity of feelings for the youngest of children. This could be a great conversation starters for adult caretakers with the children in their life about how they are doing about different aspects or changes in their life. Using Olive as the main character also helps personalize the emotions and I can easily see how parents could refer to Olive and how she might feel in a given situation, if it is hard for a child to identify their own emotions about something.
The art style was lovely as well and the use of colors facilitated the understanding of these complex feelings.

Olive All At Once is about a young girl with a lot of feelings. This book is relatable, easy to read, and full of colorful illustrations. Perfect for young children who are navigating their emotions as they grow.

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Olive All At Once
by Mariam Gates


Social emotional learning resource for early elementary school. Needed in classrooms to show that emotions are not just one thing or another. They get mixed up. This makes it hard to understand what your feeling. This book shows in simple was how this happens. It shows how to name your emotions with out prejudice or consequences. This may help students understand the difficult conflicts of emotions.

Omg this book was so cute! The illustrations are pure art, the history is pure magic and cuteness. I really loved to be inspired by the message the author passed me. Truly amazing!

A very sweet and reassuring book about feeling alllll the feelings. This was a great read with my kiddos and we will definitely be getting a physical copy to add to the bookshelf! Normalize all feelings! Thanks for this ARC

Olive All At Once by Mariam Gates is a tender and insightful picture book that beautifully captures the complexity of children's emotions. Through the endearing character of Olive, young readers are invited to explore the nuanced and sometimes contradictory feelings that arise in various situations.

As Olive navigates the ups and downs of everyday life, from the excitement and apprehension of the first day of school to the mix of joy and jealousy at a friend's birthday party, Gates skillfully portrays the rich tapestry of emotions children experience. Olive's candid reflections on her relationship with her little sister highlight the multifaceted nature of emotions as she grapples with feelings of gladness and frustration.

What sets Olive All At Once apart is its compassionate and empowering message about embracing and accepting our emotions. Gates gently encourages young readers to acknowledge and honor their feelings, even when they seem contradictory or overwhelming. The book fosters social-emotional intelligence and resilience in children by normalizing the experience of feeling multiple emotions at once.

The illustrations by Mariam Gates complement the text beautifully, capturing Olive's emotional journey with warmth and sensitivity. Each page is alive with expressive characters and vibrant colors, inviting readers to immerse themselves in Olive's world and empathize with her experiences.

Overall, Olive All At Once is a heartfelt and empowering book celebrating human emotions' richness. Through Olive's story, children learn that it's okay to feel different and sometimes opposite emotions simultaneously. With its valuable lessons and engaging storytelling, this book is a must-have addition to any child's library, encouraging them to embrace their feelings and navigate life's ups and downs with courage and compassion.

Olive is a relatable and adorable character and we learn that she experiences different emotions and feelings in a day, in different settings and under different circumstances like all kids/everyone else.
The book approaches this fact in a cute and non-preachy way.
What stood out was Olive’s expressions and her own telling of how she feels.

I read this to my son who has alot of big feelings. I loved it! The accuracy of feeling so many different things at once is validating, especially to those who feel emotions so deeply. I will definitely be reading this to my kids again.

A fantastic addition to any picture book collection, this little book normalizes the way in which a single moment can provoke many different emotions. As Olive moves through her adventure the narrative gradually shifts from an either/or format to a both/and format, while visual coding of colorful emotions swirled together provides another way for young readers to understand that feelings can be a bit messy. While this would be a fantastic story time read aloud paired with something like My Many Colored Days (by Dr Seuss) and a messy color craft, the story touches on important milestones in any young child's life like the beginning of a new school year or the arrival of a new sibling making it a wonderful all round read for libraries serving young patrons and their caregivers. Thank you to NetGalley for access to this arc!

A book designed to show the young reader that mixed emotions are regularly a thing, and that it's alright to feel both this way and that at the same time. Olive is happy and jealous at a party, excited and yet scared on day one of school, and so on. The text is fairly distinctive as it goes about this routine message – we have the narrator and the speech bubbles from Olive, and oftentimes Olive is there to correct the narrator, or at least to clarify. It's obvious that could have been dreadful, but I certainly didn't mind it – it adds to the spin on this concept the book has, and makes the text more lively than the straight non-fiction lesson we might have got. This still isn't the ultimate, compellingly plotted book that demands being taken off the shelf, but if you think a child would gain from these pages they aren't going to dismiss them from lack of appeal, making this much more suitable an option than several alternatives. A healthy four stars, then.

Mariam Gates' book talks about an important topic especially for the kids who are growing up. Through the story of Olive, author tries to communicate that it is okay to feel different emotions at different times or even simultaneously. At a young age it can be difficult to understand the feelings and whether it is normal or not. Such book through captivating story and quirky pictures help the educators, teachers, and parents to talk about different emotions which are being felt by their kids and how to deal with them.

I loved this book! It's about a girl named Olive and her feelings, which can often be conflicting. It is a great way to help kids understand their feelings, which can be confusing , like how they can be both happy and jealous at a birthday party. This is the best children's book about feelings that I've read and I'm looking forward to reading it with my daughter!

This is a lovely book great for teaching kids about experiencing multiple emotions at once, using scenarios most kids will go through.

This is a wonderful socioemotional book that would make a great addition to any home or classroom. Our main character Olive has many feeling and sometimes she struggles to understand them. The narrator patiently talks through each emotion with Olive to help her understand and express her feelings accurately. I think this book provides a wonderful framework for parents trying to teach their kids healthy processing and self expression. I will be purchasing this title for my personal collection! 5 stars

This is a beautifully illustrated book. and nice story You will meet Olive in this story. We learn she has lots of feelings and she has many things she enjoys. She is invited to a friend's party but has a feeling of jealousy when she doesn't get gifts too. Throughout this story, Olive goes through many feelings and learns each of us can have many feelings all at once. It is told wonderfully and the illustrations are great with good color while helping tell the story. It is a wonderful story for families and schools.

Olive All At Once by Mariam Gates is a wonderful picture which would be great to use for SEL with preschoolers and kindergarteners. Olive is a typical little girl who has many different emotions. Sometimes she feels more than one emotion at once. As children experience Olive's different combinations of emotions that she feels during different parts of her life, they learn that it is okay to experience different types of emotions all at once. Alison Hawkins has created very colorful illustrations which children will enjoy while listening to the story.

Thank you to the author, Sounds True Publishing and NetGalley, for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book for younger readers is a wonderful way to introduce the topic of feelings and emotions. Olive is a typical little girl who has lots of feelings, often at the same time - we loved the way the vibrant illustrations underlined the feelings Olive is having, and sometimes struggling with. Great to talk about how it's okay to experience different types of emotions, sometimes all at once.

Olive all at once is a beautiful children’s book about how we can often feel different emotions, all at once.

We loved the interplay between Olive and the narrator as they articulated olives ‘Jumbled’ feelings. It was an insightful way to coach around expressing and accepting mixed emotions, which is a great lesson for children and adults alike!

This is a lovely book to foster emotional intelligence and resilience in children, and a great lesson for them to share with their grownups. The illustrations are warm, bright, reassuring and add a strong sense of confidence, validation and normalisation to the story.

Thank you Sounds True Publishing and NetGalley for this book. Opinions expressed are my own.