By Gabi Garcia
A girl learns to spot the body clues behind her feelings — a fluttery tummy, tight fists, warm loose shoulders — and the book keeps stopping to let your child practice noticing too.
A girl notices what her feelings feel like from the inside. Excitement is a jittery, wiggly tummy. Calm is warm, loose shoulders. Getting upset is a tight jaw and clenched hands. The whole idea of the book is that those sensations are clues, and it stops every few pages to ask your child to check in — what do you notice in your body right now? It's aimed at the moment before a feeling gets big: catch the tight jaw early, and there's still time to take a breath.
Once a child can name feelings, the harder skill is catching one before it takes over, and the body is where you catch it first. That's what this book gives a child to practice: a tight jaw and a fast breath are the early signal that a big feeling is coming, so there's a chance to do something before the meltdown. It asks a little more than the pure feeling-word books, so it lands best once 'happy' and 'angry' are already familiar.