Books like The Way I Feel
By Janan Cain
For the kid who has big feelings and no words yet for what's happening inside, this book hands them a vocabulary. Bright, bouncy, and validating — more mirror than story.
A boy watches his parents paint his old baby furniture pink for his new sister, and when they reach his little blue chair, he grabs it and runs away.
A young tiger can't read, write, draw, or speak, and his worried father watches for progress while his mother insists he just needs time to bloom in his own way.
A gallery of animal families — ducks, pandas, hippos, tigers, and more — appears in framed portraits, each one showing a different way to be a family, from two moms to a kid with just a pet plant.
A little princess with a big imagination battles knights and hunts dragons by day, but bedtime brings heavy blankets, scary shadows, and worries about wetting the bed — until Grandma Grace helps her find calm.
An overachieving egg tries to be perfect while the other eleven eggs in his carton behave badly, until the pressure literally starts to crack him and he decides something has to change.
Two identical-looking twin sisters share the same eyes, cheeks, and smiles, but as they make dumplings, get haircuts, and practice magic tricks, their differences keep showing through.
A beloved dinosaur bakes cookies, helps old ladies cross the street, and plays with kids in town — while one boy, Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie, insists she's scientifically extinct and shouldn't exist at all.
A boy wakes up with gum in his hair and just knows it's going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day — and from breakfast to bedtime, he's right.
A rhyming, day-in-the-life look at a school where kids from every background arrive, share their traditions and talents, and are welcomed exactly as they are.
A lonely old man sets out to find one pretty cat but can't choose among the millions, billions, and trillions he finds on a hillside — so he brings them all home.
A homeless dog living in a box in an alley writes letter after letter to every house on Butternut Street, pleading his case for a forever home.
A boy named Tommy loses his favorite toy, and as he searches, colorful monster-like emotions — Worried, Angry, Jealous, Sad — start looming larger and larger until they threaten to take over.
