Books like In My Heart: A Book of Feelings
By Jo Witek
A cast of colorful monsters take turns wearing die-cut masks to show what makes them glad, sad, silly, mad, worried, and loving — inviting readers to try the feelings on too.
A motherless princess learns her father plans to trade her to an Ogre for fifty wagons of silver, so she devises her own escape — hidden in a coat of a thousand furs.
A gadget-loving girl dreams of fixing rockets instead of going to the royal ball, but when her fairy godrobot sends her anyway and the prince's ship breaks down mid-party, her wrench skills save the day.
A young dreamer who learns to read from her mother's tombstone runs away with a poet at sixteen, then on a stormy night in Switzerland invents a monster story that becomes Frankenstein.
A boy afraid to go to school rides his grandfather's 1952 Ford time machine back through Big Papa's own frightening moments, hearing the same lesson each time: that's called being brave.
A musical girl from small-town North Carolina, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, grows into the singer Nina Simone — her sweet voice rising into a thunderous roar of protest during the Civil Rights Movement.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
One vividly colored fish at a time swims across an inky black page, each one radiating a single feeling — curious, shocked, loving, content — named in letters as expressive as the fish itself.
On a long subway ride, a boy studies strangers' faces and imagines their whole lives — until one guess turns out to be more complicated, and more familiar, than he expected.
A boardinghouse girl in nineteenth-century Paris spots a quiet stranger walking on air across the courtyard and begs him to teach her — not knowing he's a once-famous wire-walker now gripped by fear.
A boy strolls down Market Street from A to Z, buying a gift from each shopkeeper — who are dressed head-to-toe in exactly what they sell, from gloves to oranges to wigs.
