Everybody Feels … Angry!
Everybody Feels … Sad!
Moira Butterfield and Holly Stirling
QED
These are two of a quartet of books each of which centres on a different emotion (the others being Happy! and Scared!), presented from the viewpoint of child narrators.
Sophie and Ethan tell their angry stories. Sophie became overwhelmed by angry feelings when having left her ‘really good picture’ to retrieve her shoe from the dog’s mouth, she finds that her younger brother couldn’t resist adding some marks of his own to the drawing.

Ethan’s anger was roused by the discovery that the chocolate bar his gran had given him had vanished from the cupboard and he then notices first the empty wrapper and then tell-tale marks on his big brother’s face.

Fortunately however, the children are neighbours and so Ethan visits Sophie in her garden where it’s ‘calm and quiet’, the two talk about their feelings and the respective siblings then apologise, so all ends harmoniously.
In addition to the scenarios described, there are retrospective pages – one each for the children’s stories, a spread of related vocabulary and a ‘Next Steps’ finale offering early years teachers (should they need them) and other adults some guidelines for discussion, art and drama.
The second title follows a similar pattern: a story from sad girl Chloe, and one from sad boy, Omar. The former’s sadness is a result of losing her favourite toy elephant, Beebee; the latter is sad because his beloved cat Socks has died. (Ethan features in this story too: his cat has some kittens that go to live with Omar.)

Sensitively told, and beautifully illustrated by rising star, Holly Sterling, this series is ideal for use in early years settings as well as families where there are young children.

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