Lots of Feelings
A teacher’s look at why this book belongs in the Lap Listeners stage.
Why it fits Lap Listeners (for babies in their first year, when books are about your voice, not the plot)
Photographs of real children's faces cycling through everyday emotions. Real faces, real feelings - the Montessori preference for the real world, applied to the heart. Sturdy enough for baby handling, useful into the toddler years.
What makes it special
Rotner's photographs catch real children mid-feeling — nothing posed, nothing softened. The simple labeling text lets the faces do the teaching. Screens serve children emotions as emoji; this hands them the real, complicated human version.
From the publisher
Simple text and photographs introduce basic emotions happy, grumpy, thoughtful, and more and how people express…
About Shelley Rotner
Shelley Rotner is a photojournalist-turned-children's-author whose forty-plus photo-essay books document real children's lives, feelings, and communities — a documentary approach rare in a cartoon-dominated field.
Also by this author: Shades of People · Grow! Raise! Catch! · Many Ways
More from “Faces Like Mine, Faces Like Yours”
This book is part of The Best Books for Babies: 30 Teacher Picks (Lap Listeners) in our guide The Best Children’s Books by Age — 120 books chosen by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX. Come see how we build readers →
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