Sometimes I Feel Stormy: a Book About Feelings

This book is a colorful, easy to read, and beautifully illustrated story. It defines and discusses feelings, by making a comparison between our emotions and the weather. It focuses on six primary feelings, leads to discussions about feelings and helps to identify appropriate alternatives to unhealthy expressions, and provides insight to the child, by showing a connection between our feelings and our actions. This is accomplished by using age appropriate language and images. Using descriptions of the weather, the child can begin to label, understand, and express his/her feelings. The questions at the end of each section, allow the child to evaluate his/her personal expressions of emotions. In doing, so, Stormy paints a colorful portrait of the wonderful world of moods, experienced by young and old alike.