The Great Big Book of Feelings

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BACKGROUND

Happy, sad, excited, bored, silly, shy, confident … Explore lots of different feelings with the children in this book, including how to share and talk about feelings, and how to help yourself feel better. Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith look at feelings in family life, at school and everywhere with the same warmth, wit and sensitivity that they brought to their award-winning The Great Big Book of Families.

This publication is also available in Afrikaans, Die groot boek van gevoelens.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Hoffman has written over 90 books for children that range from picture books to novels. The Amazing Grace series – featuring the feisty and imaginative Grace – have received enormous critical acclaim and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. Her other picture books for Frances Lincoln include The Colour of Home, An Angel Just Like Me and Kings and Queens of the Bible, as well as The Great Big Book of Families, which won the School Library Association Information Book Award in 2011. Mary lives in rural Oxfordshire with her husband and three Burmese cats. She has three adult daughters who all work in the arts.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Ros Asquith has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years, and has written and illustrated over 60 books for young people, including the international bestseller, The Great Big Book of Families, with Mary Hoffman, the Teenage Worrier series and her debut picture storybook, It’s not Fairy. She graduated from Camberwell School of Art, working as a photographer, designer and teacher before becoming a theatre critic for Time Out and the Observer, and diary writer for the TV Times. Her other titles, for Barn Owl Books, are The Roman Beanfeast and The Skiver’s Guide. Ros has two sons and lives in north London.

READER PROFILE

Toddlers from 24 months.