An Emotional Menagerie: Feelings from A to Z

This book is an emotional glossary for children. It’s a book of 26 rhyming poems, arranged alphabetically, that bring our feelings to life. Each emotion is transformed into a different animal, illustrating its character, origins, behaviors, and management.

Children experience various emotions, sometimes multiple ones before breakfast, but may struggle to put them into words. This inability can lead to bad behavior, frustration, and future difficulties. Like adults, children need help recognizing and expressing their emotions. A greater emotional vocabulary will help them in becoming happy, healthy, and fulfilled adults. This imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and illustration shows that emotions are like animals—unique, sometimes quiet, fierce, and hard to tame.