I Know Mad: A Book about Feeling Mad, Frustrated, and Jealous - Paperback

by Lindsay N. Giroux (Author), Alicia Teba Godoy (Illustrator)

Children learn to recognize and cope with feeling mad, frustrated, and jealous.

A young feelings detective looks for clues, both physical and emotional, to identify anger, frustration, and jealousy in themselves and in others. The child uses a special notebook to draw their feelings and identify how they feel. By noticing the clues, the feelings detective is able to find a new plan to overcome feeling jealous and even help their mom when she is feeling frustrated.

We Find Feelings Clues
Increase children's emotion vocabulary and boost their emotional literacy. This series helps children learn how to find, notice, and use a variety of clues to identify and name their emotions and those of others. Clues are found in facial expressions and body language, sensations within the body, and knowledge of past experiences. After identifying an emotion, children also learn how they can feel better when their emotions are overwhelming. Each book features a child using the tool of the feelings detective notebook to record their feelings through drawings and words. Additional information and strategies on recognizing and dealing with feelings are included at the back of each book.

Author Biography

Lindsay N. Giroux, M.Ed., specializes in coaching preschool teachers on implementing the Pyramid Model to promote social-emotional development and prevent challenging behavior. She is the author of Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom: Helping Young Children Build Their Social Emotional Skills and the We Find Feelings Clues picture book series, as well as a contributing author of Connect4Learning(R), a Pre-K curriculum and the ChooseFI Pre-K financial literacy curriculum. Her professional interests include teacher training, social skill instruction, and inclusion of preschoolers with special needs. Lindsay received a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Special Education from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. She is currently the Manager of Educational Quality: Inclusion & Behavior Support for Bright Horizons. She resides in Raleigh, NC with her husband and son.

Alicia Teba Godoy lives and works in Spain, where she studied cinema and illustration. Her passions are art and animals. She is vegetarian and is also an avid animal advocate and lover. Alicia has a bunny as a pet, and they are like peas and carrots. She is an author too and loves writing. In her free time she enjoys creating, watching movies, drinking tea, and daydreaming.