Good children’s book and ideal for stimulating discussion with younger children about feelings and emotions.

My then five year old enjoyed the charming illustrations and enjoyed discussing the various emotions referred to. It is not a book she has ever asked to return to though and, for her, the lack of narrative meant she was never as engaged as she is with many books.

Good but not essential.

I liked What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking by Tina Oziewicz. What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking is beautifully illustrated. I like how the author described the feelings. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book. My review is also on Goodreads.

What Feelings Do When No One's Looking is an
excellent book that introduces children to the language of emotions through a cast of delightful characters and enchanting Illustrations. It's a great book for parents to read and discuss with their children to help them learn to identify and express how they are feeling.

What a great resource to help kids begin to recognize and name feelings! Dozens of different feelings are imagined as creatures and shown acting out. Young children will definitely need guidance from an adult reading partner to understand the metaphors, but it could be very helpful for children to be able to picture a feeling and how it "acts". It was nice that there were some more obscure or nuanced picks (like jitters and hospitality) alongside the obvious, showy topics (like joy and hate).

The art is very soft, with muted colors and a pencil-drawn style, but it's full of expression and charming details. This would make a great read for pre-K kids, both at home and at school. Feelings are big and confusing and any tools we can give kids to communicate are very valuable!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review.

What a beautiful imaginative story about feelings! I would recommend this book to anyone, would be great for a younger child read aloud as well as for older children.

What a lovely special book. This deserves to be a classic, a beautiful way to encourage children to visualise and name their emotions and at the end makes them realise that they can feel all of these at different points in their lives.

Thank you to NetGalley and Archipelago, Elsewhere Editions for the DRC of ”What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking" by Tina Oziewicz. This is a wonderful and whimsical look at what our feelings would do if they were alive. Sometimes creatures, sometimes children, this book is fun, the illustrations have little details that jump out at you and provide an opportunity for further discussion. This is a great book to help children (or really, anyone) put names to describe how they’re feeling, and to increase their emotional vocabulary. I will be adding this to my personal print library at home, as well as to my counseling toolkit (for both children AND adults), and I highly recommend this book to every parent, teacher, counselor, and anyone else who works with children.

Thank you to NetGalley and Archipelago, Elsewhere Editions for the DRC of ”What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking" by Tina Oziewicz. This is a wonderful and whimsical look at what our feelings would do if they were alive. Sometimes creatures, sometimes children, this book is fun, the illustrations have little details that jump out at you and provide an opportunity for further discussion. This is a great book to help children (or really, anyone) put names to describe how they’re feeling, and to increase their emotional vocabulary. I will be adding this to my personal print library at home, as well as to my counseling toolkit (for both children AND adults), and I highly recommend this book to every parent, teacher, counselor, and anyone else who works with children.

This is an amazingly simple book exploring feelings and how we manifest them in our lives, how to recognise and name them.

Brilliant for parents, teachers, therapists and anyone who needs a ‘book hug’, this is a supportive book which allows the reader to associate with and relate to feelings, how our Feelings are manifested, and how we can support, indulge, or move on from them.

I loved this book and will be buying it for my school
Thanks to #NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book ahead of publication in exchange for an honest review

What Feelings Do When No one Is Looking is an adorable book. With pictures to set the tone the author tells a tail of emotions hospitality bakes a cake, envy ruins everything that’s beautiful and it goes on and on. The best thing I have to report about this book is it is 100% accessible to children who depend on screen readers to enjoy your book. It is set up for picture description and I don’t know if every picture is but every picture I pressed worked. This book was originally written in Warsaw and translated and I am so thankful they did it as an adorable book and one that will get a lot of use in my household. It’s a book for children in preschool or younger. I was given this book by not Galli and I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any errors as I am blind and dictate my review but all opinions are definitely my own.

I’m an adult who neither has kids nor works with them; I just love well-written children’s books, because they have the unexpected ability to speak to adults, sometimes more profoundly than they do to kids. #WhatFeelingsDoWhenNoOnesLooking is one of them.

A two-page spread is allotted to each feeling, though for the most part, the illustrations lean towards minimalistic. I found this interesting — are the clean, crisp aesthetics reshaping illustrated children’s books? I’d have no idea, but I’d love the opportunity to hear about her artistic choices from the illustrator, Aleksandra Zając. Having grown up with Roald Dahl, I associate children’s books with kooky, vividly colourful illustrations. Here we have calm, muted greys and beiges, blues and pinks, desaturated greens and oranges. Joy, as is Happiness, is grey. Anger too, though huge and upset, is grey and not a blazing red. This choice, it seems to me, creates a more neutral environment for the target demographic to confront feelings that can be turbulent at times, and helps give the words more weight.

Most of what the feelings are up to are one-liners. Simple as they are, Tina Oziewicz succeeds in conveying all of the featured feelings’ essences.

Surely, some are standard expressions adults will have grown accustomed to: joy bounces, freedom sails, shame hides, happiness floats, sadness requires the comforting embrace of a blanket, “[t]rust builds bridges” (which in our corporate age sounds like a motivational poster on the walls of a hostile company’s HR department), anger is explosive, loneliness is by itself in an expansive desert. They are, however, accurate. As I have no experience with teaching children, I might be mistaken, but I believe these would help a small child identify and make sense of their feelings. (Another bleak side-note: it might not have this second meaning in Polish, but happiness floating in a soap bubble felt a bit dark for obvious reasons.)

Others were even more insightful, phrased in ways that make adults pause and ponder. “Insecurities build cages,” and “[f]ear pretends it isn’t there.” Here lies the power of a good children’s book: its ability to call out to and confront adults. It takes an adult a minute or two to read What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking from cover to cover, and I’d recommend sparing that time.

I wonder if any lyricism is lost to translation, as I’m accustomed to children’s books (especially ones that target 3 year olds) having a rhythmic rhyme. Regardless, Jennifer Croft’s translation is so good, the book feels authentic, as if it was written in English to begin with.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I have no idea about raising and dealing with children, so at this point I cheated a bit and read some other reviews. One mentioned this book being a great tool for a counsellor, and it made perfect sense. This is totally not my original idea, but I too would recommend this to counsellors and teachers, maybe even more than I would to parents or other legal guardians, as it feels to me it would benefit a lot from a pedagogically trained perspective helping the children through the book’s contents.

Thank you to #NetGalley and Elsewhere Editions for this heartwarming and thought-provoking DRC!

Oh my goodness- what a GEM this book is!! Every page I turned I smiled even more. The simple words and adorable illustrations would make young readers relate to all the emotions. As a teacher to young students I would recommend and read this book in my class. I can already think of cute ways on how to Implement this book. Wonderful! Thanks NetGalley for the opportunity to read this one.

Just as 'Where the Wild Things' hit a chord without saying much, 'What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking' plucks at your emotions often in just three words per page. The feeling "monsters" remind me of Maurice Sendak's wild things in countenance and adventure though they are distinctly unique. Parents and children will love to relate to each richly drawn emotion.

WHO SHOULD READ IT: This is an excellent option for young children.

Thank you @Netgalley and @steerforthpress for early access to this ARC in return for an unbiased and voluntary review

Whimsical illustrations bring simple sentences to life and help children relate to and talk about certain types of feelings in this gem of a book. A great choice when trying to bridge the gap and talk about emotions without seeming too serious and bogged down in detail. This book would be great for a classroom or school library as well where it could be used for counseling lessons as well. Aimed at the younger grades, but could also be used for writing prompts for upper elementary. Beautiful artwork makes feelings more relatable and less abstract for young readers. Great reread value!

This book is wonderful. Children often aren't taught much about their emotions but it's important that they understand what they are feeling and are able to label it. I think this book is a great starting point for parents / caregivers to begin having conversations about different emotions with their children. I could see if being a jumping off point for much deeper discussions about the things we feel, ie what else might sympathy / happiness / anxiety do? Also the illustrations are so fun.

What Feelings Do When No One's Looking is a beautifully illustrated children's books. I could keep going back to look at the amazing pictures. Looking at the pictures it tells the children a little about how that feeling makes us feel - Anger is shouting and big and mad. While Happiness simply sits and floats and smiles in a bubble.

This book is a great resources to help children understand feelings and would open up many conversations between adult and child reading together.

This beautiful picture book has the look of Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are”.
The title of “What Feelings Do When No Ones Looking” is completely intriguing...,who wouldn’t want to know this info! This book makes you think deeply about emotions and it’s a perfect inspirational discussion book. I particularly like Calm pets a dog...I have certainly felt that. That’s a wonderful thing. And “Insecurities build cages”...what an opportunity to talk with a child or even a teenager about how our fears can keep us stuck. Highly recommend this book!

What an adorable book.

In "What Feelings Do When No One's Looking", the reader is shown glimpses of what the feelings are up to in their spare time. Paired with the wonderful illustrations by Aleksandra Zajac, it felt like I was given a tour into the world of feelings. The feelings were beautifully expressed, the writing conveyed the feelings in a clear and creative way, and it was overall a quick and delightful reading experience.

I would love to share this book with my cousin's daughters, and I recommend this book for all readers who enjoy children's books, and for those who love to read books with children.

"Excitement races to a friend with a newly discovered book."

This delightful picture book is translated from Polish and is filled with whimsical illustrations that I want to frame and display on every wall.

I highly recommend this book for every library and classroom as it is perfect for Social Emotional Learning and Concept Skills. It could be a fun storytime book that lends itself to acting out the emotions and/or discussing what you do when you feel a certain way.

I work in a school with very young children, which is why I am always very interested in reading this kind of books. The theme, in addition to being interesting, is very important. There is still little talk of feelings and emotions at school and this book does so with delicacy and sweetness.
And all the illustrations are really well done!
Absolutely recommended!