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Examine the endpapers. Begin a list of the fruits and vegetables you see there, and describe the emotions they might be feeling.

As you read, make connections with the feelings described and share relevant personal experiences. Imagine what could have happened to the characters to cause their expressions.

Using a fruit or vegetable from home, make a face that expresses an emotion. Photograph your creation. Add some text in the style of How Are You Peeling? Make a class book from your assembled pages.

Work with a partner and select one of the images. In order to explain the fruit or vegetable’s feelings, make up a skit that shows what happened before, during and after the picture was taken.

Examine the endpapers. Begin a list of the fruits and vegetables, and describe the emotions they might be feeling.

Discuss the emotions portrayed and create a mind map about them. Sort them in terms of happy, sad, mad, upset, etc.

Create your own version of the book by taking selfies of different facial expressions. Add a short text, using a similar style. Assemble them in a media presentation.

Happy, The Great Big Book of Feelings, In My Heart: A Book of Feelings

Mots-clés

Picture book , feelings , fruits , illustrations (photographs) , sculptures , self-expression , stories in rhyme , vegetables

Commentaire descriptif

“Happy? Sad? Feeling blue? Feeling bad?” This funny little picture book conveys a broad range of human emotion through the amazingly expressive faces and postures—of fruits and vegetables. Think it can’t be done? Just watch how that long, twisting green pepper snuggles up to the friendly tomato, or how that stressed spring onion’s roots flail around his head. Carved smiles and grimaces occasionally support the natural bumps and shapes of the fruits and vegetables, while eloquent eyes are made with black-eyed peas (as explained by the back material). The language offers short, rhyming captions for these scenes of social interaction. Children will relate to the complexities in the situations described: “Feeling sorry and ashamed? Or embarrassed to be blamed?” Altogether this book provides a valuable opportunity for young readers to explore all kinds of feelings at a reassuring distance and with a great deal of humour—a fine accompaniment to almost any emotion.