A bright, reassuring picture book that explores how happiness can feel and the ways children may express it. Simple examples make it easy to talk about joy, excitement, smiles and connection.
From the Learning Can Be Fun Resilience Range, this picture book uses friendly characters and simple text to explore happiness. Read it together, pause to notice the characters' expressions, and invite children to share what happiness looks and feels like for them.
Create a gentle feelings toolkit
A familiar reading format helps children build emotional vocabulary across happy, kind, angry, anxious, sad and wronged. Choose another feeling to explore now, or collect the range for conversations as new situations arise.
Build a balanced setPair a positive-emotion title with a book about a harder feeling, giving children language for both everyday joys and tricky moments.
Build the range at your own pace. Keep several titles within reach so children can choose the book that best matches how they feel that day.
