In My Heart A Book of Feelings (Growing Hearts) by Jo Witek

This beautifully crafted feelings book offers young children a gentle, poetic exploration of the wide emotional landscape they experience daily. Through vivid, sensory-rich metaphors—a heart feeling "as light as a balloon" or "as heavy as an elephant"—the book gives tangible, physical language to abstract emotions like happiness, bravery, and anger. The lyrical yet direct text is perfectly calibrated for a preschooler's understanding, making complex feelings accessible and validating. It’s a standout social-emotional learning resource that helps children identify and name what’s happening inside them.

What truly distinguishes this emotional intelligence book are the imaginative die-cut hearts and colorful illustrations that visually represent each feeling state, creating a multi-sensory reading experience. Parents seeking tools for emotional development will find it opens natural conversations about feelings, while the sturdy board book format withstands repeated handling by little hands. It’s a foundational book about emotions that assures every child their heart, in all its feelings, is perfectly okay.