Review: Feeling Your Feelings : The Head-To-Toe Science Of Emotions

Feeling Your Feelings : The Head-To-Toe Science Of Emotions

Author: Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Illustrator: Phil Nicholls

Kids Can Press, 2025

ISBN: 9781525311277 (hardcover)
9781525313516 (EPUB)

$19.99 CAD (hardcover)
$15.99 CAD (EPUB)

48 pages

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Recommended library audience: School Library

Whether they are questioning why they feel the urge to stomp their feet when mad or knocking their knees when nervous, tweens will get to learn the answers in Feeling Your Feelings. In an accessible language, this book serves to help tweens navigate all the confusing emotions puberty brings about, informs them on how these emotions not only affect them cognitively, but also how they manifest in them physically, and as well as provides strategies on how to work through these emotions. Well-researched, filled with funny illustrations, and interspersed with “dad jokes”, this book feels like an older friend one can turn to when looking for answers. A glossary of terms and a list of further reading are included in the backmatter. Feeling Your Feelings would be best suited in a school library’s SEL (social and emotional learning) collection.