Picture Books for Eliciting Emotional Expressions

[Ann Dowker]

Hi!

There are quite a lot of picture books for primary school children, aimed
at 'getting them in touch' with their emotions. There is a lot of debate
about whether they serve the intended purpose or not; but at any rate they
could be useful for your study, as they typically include illustrations
both of the emotional expressions and of events which elicit them.

One of the earliest is Terry Berger and Howard Spivak: I Have
Feelings; Human Sciences Press, 1978. It is illustrated by photographs.

More recent books include:


Mary Atkinson: Why Can't I Be Happy All the Time?; Dorling Kindersley,
1997


Books by 'Althea' (Althea Braithwaite):

Feeling Angry

Feeling Jealous

Feeling Sad

Feeling Scared

Feeling Shy

Being Friends



Books by Janine Amos (all published by "Cherrytree" in Bath, England)

Angry (1990)

Jealous (1990)

Sad (1990)

Hurt (1990)

Lonely (1990)

Brave (1993)

Confident (1993)

Happy (1993)

Friendly (1993)

Moody (1994)



Books by Brian Moses and M. Gordon (all published by Wayland, 1993)

I Feel Angry

I Feel Frightened

I Feel Jealous

I Feel Sad




Books by Sally Hewitt (all published by Watts)

Feeling Angry

Feeling Jealous

Feeling Shy

Feeling Worried



I hope some of these are useful.


Yours,

Ann





On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jiansheng Guo wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm planning to collect some narratives that contain emotional
> expressions, and am wondering if there is a good picture story book for
> this purpose.
>
> I would like to see how children (from 3 to 9 years) label emotions and
> describe the cause and consequence of the characters' emotional
> reactions to emotional arousing events.  Ideally, the story should
> contain events that might arouse happiness, sadness, anger, fear,
> surprise, shame and pride.
>
> If you have used any books good for this purpose, or if you have any
> references to previous studies using such books, I would be most
> appreciative to know.  Thanks for your kind help in advance.
>
> All my best wishes,
> Guo
>
> Jiansheng Guo
> Dept. of Human Development
> California State University, Hayward
>
>