Picture Books for Eliciting Emotional Expressions

Dr. Donna Thal dthal at mail.sdsu.edu
Fri Jul 20 23:02:36 UTC 2001


I'll be out of the office until August 21st.

At 12:14 PM 7/20/2001 +0100, George Hunt wrote:
>A very reliable source of this kind of talk is 'Where the Wild Things Are'
>by Maurice Sendak. Other promising titles are:
>
>The Tunnel by Anthony Brown
>
>Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley
>
>My Brother Sean by Errol Lloyd
>
>The Great Green Mouse Disaster by Martin Waddell and Phillipe Dupasquier
>
>Dogger by Shirley Hughes
>
>The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg (top end of your age
>range)
>
>I'm sorry I don't have publishing details to hand, but all of these books
>are classics and should be widely available.
>
>Best wishes
>
>George Hunt
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jiansheng Guo" <jshguo at csuhayward.edu>
>To: <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:34 AM
>Subject: Picture Books for Eliciting Emotional Expressions
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >

Donna J. Thal, Ph.D.
Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory
6330 Alvarado Court, Suite 231
San Diego, CA  92120-1850

phone: 619-594-7110
fax: 619-594-4570

Department of Communicative Disorders
San Diego State University
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