Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Fun, Interactive Picture Book That Emphasizes Even Halloween Monsters Can Have Different Feelings

Lovely and colourful book, can become interactive using the masks included. I am sure that children will enjoy it!

The book itself is nothing special, but children love it, so, I suppose its excellent resource if you're doing the social and emotional teaching.

Great

I LOVE this book. When I was in playschool it was a huge hit and now I am in a classroom with kiddos with special needs and it is still huge hit 6 months later. It has cute monster face cut outs. Simple, cute explanation of feelings.

Excelente para ayudar a identificar los sentimientos a los niños y ayudar expresarlos.

Such a creative way to talk about the way you feel with kids

Conocía este libro en castellano y quería la versión en inglés ya que me gusta bastante y en general a los niños también les gusta. Se trata de un libro para trabajar las emociones, yo al contarlo modifico algo del vocabulario para hacerlo más reconocible por los niños (lo cuento a niños de hasta 7 años). Es atractivo tanto por los dibujos de los monstruos como por las caretas que te vas poniendo al contarlo (y que les encanta cuando pueden ellos manejar el libro y jugar con las caretas). Es sencillo de entender y además de trabajar las emociones se trabajan algunos colores. Puntos a favor: - Contenido del propio libro. - Las caretas de los monstruos con sus expresiones. Puntos a mejorar: - Las narices de las caretas se despegan con facilidad, hay que pegarlas.

Believe it or not...this book helps control tantrums. Most kids between 2 and 4 don't have the vocabulary to express their feelings. This book teaches them the different emotions, and assigns a color to them. If my son starts to cry, instead of getting frustrated, I can ask him, "Are you a blue monter (the sad one) or a yellow monster (the glad one)? He'll say the blue monster. It's how we get kids to verbalize instead of tantrum. It's helped immensely. I wouldn't use the mask part though, cause kids sometimes don't understand that you are behind the mask and they think you've gone away. Also recommend "Go Away Big Scary Monster" by Emberly. Fantastic!!! On a side note...I will say that I've never been able to really use the fold out pages (that has eye holes for you to look through...so you can be one of the monsters)....the book's a bit unwieldy that way. But I just ignore that part of it and just read the book like I would any other. After the "mad monster" gets mad at a kid knocking down his blocks....I ask my son - What makes you mad? And then..."What makes you sad? - Happy?" - and so on. When you tell kids to stop yelling or throwing things (or whatever your kid might do to show frustration) sometimes they interpret it as, "We're not allowed to be angry." Which'll make them robots when they grow up. This book opens the discussion up for them.