Picture Books for Eliciting Emotional Expressions

[George Hunt]

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
>
>