Feeling Your Feelings: The Head-to-Toe Science of Emotions by Phil Nicholls, Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Published by Kids Can Press on 10/07/25
ISBN: 1525311271
Genres: Non-Fiction
Format: Nonfiction
Source: MSL Book Review
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Feeling Your Feelings provides an introduction for how our bodies experience emotions, from head to toe.  Each page covers a different part of the body with interesting scientific facts or historical perspectives, especially if the science isn’t conclusive.  There is a table of contents and human body diagram at the beginning so readers know where to find specific information.  Right from the start, readers are invited to either read the book sequentially or to go to the part that interests them.  At the bottom of each page, the author tells readers which page they can turn to in order to read about a topic that connects to the page they just read.   

This book is ideal for upper elementary students.  The information isn’t too scientific for kids to understand, but new vocabulary words are introduced in bold and included in the glossary.  Each page also has colorful and fun illustrations and there is humor sprinkled throughout the text, all which will appeal to readers and will help make the text more engaging and accessible.  

Reviewed by Lindsay Varnum, Orono Public Library