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The Big Feelings Jar: A story about the feelings inside us
Paperback
Series: Big Stuff
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Does your child know it's okay to feel all the feelings?
Theo loves morning cereal, dropping stones into jars, and watching clouds move across the sky. And Theo has feelings - yellow ones and grey ones, red ones and blue ones, and some that don't have a name yet.
In this warm, honest picture book, Theo learns that all his feelings are allowed - even the heavy ones he doesn't understand. When his jar fills up with grey and blue and he can't explain why, his teacher Ms Okafor and his mum show him that feelings don't need to make sense before they can be shared. That telling someone you trust is how the heavy colours start to move.
The Big Feelings Jar opens gentle, age-appropriate conversations about emotional literacy, asking for help, and knowing that every feeling is valid - without toxic positivity, without dismissing the hard ones, and without telling children how they should feel. Because the best time to give children the language they need is before the jar gets too full.
This book covers:
- Emotional literacy - naming and understanding feelings
- Recognising when something feels heavy or flat
- Talking to a trusted adult when feelings are hard to carry alone
- Understanding that feelings always move - like clouds
- Making feelings visible through a simple daily ritual
- The difference between having a feeling and being stuck in one
Perfect for:
- Children aged 3-6 reading with a parent or carer
- Starting emotional literacy conversations at home before they become urgent
- Nursery, Reception and early primary school settings
- Families wanting a gentle, visual tool for daily emotional check-ins
- Gifting to a family with young children - a book that builds lifelong emotional skills
A full Parent and Carer Guide is included at the back of the book, with talking points for every key page, a feelings colour key, and a step-by-step guide to making your own feelings jar at home.
Also in The Big Stuff series: Mia's Magnificent Body Map and Max's Magnificent Body Map - because body safety and emotional literacy are both milestones every child deserves support with.
The best time to start this conversation is now.
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