How are you feeling today? Being able to ask and answer this question is a key stage in children’s development and essential for maintaining good relationships with friends and family, effective learning, and good mental health. This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name different feelings and learn to talk about and manage them in helpful ways. Helps build children’s self-esteem as they develop emotional intelligence and empathy by recognising and responding appropriately to their own and other people’s feelings. Helps children with the personal, social and emotional development goals of the Early Years curriculum. Notes for parents on the importance of emotional intelligence and tips on how they can help young children manage their emotions to become more resilient in the face of stress and anxiety.

About the author / illustrator

Felicity Brooks grew up near London and wrote her first story aged four about a toy named Moley Bear. Since then she has been to university, worked as an actor, a lexicographer and a teacher of trainee pilots. Since her late twenties he has been a children's author, writing about everything from emotions to dinosaurs. When not at her desk, she can be spotted taking long walks in the Oxfordshire countryside, curled up in front of the fire with a word puzzle, or foraging for wild mushrooms in the woods.

Mar Ferrero studied Fine Arts in Madrid She was a cartoonist for some time before becoming an illustrator, which she has now been doing for many years. She has illustrated books and puzzles for Spain, USA, France, United Kingdom, China and Korea. She also writes and publishes her own short stories. Her preferred means of transport is the bike.. She is learning to play the square tambourine, and when she grows up she wants to be a potter. She lives in a town in the mountains near Madrid with her partner, her two daughters, a dog, four chickens and five fish.

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