Witek expertly utilizes similes to help young readers grasp the concepts a bright yellow star represents happiness, but a red cross with a bandage on it is emblematic of a broken heart when feelings have been hurt. With each page turn, emotions from happiness to sadness, bravery to fear, anger to calm are displayed. An expressive girl explains: "My heart is like a house, with all these feelings living inside." On the facing page, the shape of a house surrounds the interior die-cut hearts. The device entices readers to turn the page and enter into an exploration of emotion. Readers will be attracted right away to the rainbow hues of the multilayered die-cut hearts that recede inward from the cover. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Vibrant die cuts, whimsical drawings, and a text that explores a wide range of feelings with just the right touches of imagination and wit combine for a most impressive picture-book experience. Throughout the representative illustrations-a bright yellow star to represent happiness, an elephant to represent sadness, a silhouette of the Big Bad Wolf to represent fear-a series of heart cutouts, ever decreasing in size, appears on the pages, until the heroine is able to find her feelings everywhere.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD The book pairs brief verbal explorations of emotions with evocative imagery, popping with bright colors against the effectively used white background. The approach still works, especially when the feelings evoked have such child-friendly imagery ("My heart is yelling, hot and loud," the child narrator explains).
Seuss's My Many-Colored Days (Knopf, 1998), don't count that against it. PreS-Gr 1-Although this picture book exploration of feelings takes a similar list-and-describe approach to that of Jamie Lee Curtis's Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day (HarperCollins, 2007) and Dr.
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