I absolutely love both the animation and the story line of this story. It is so important to raise children with understanding to of their emotions.

My child and I loved the illustration and way the information about our emotions was presented. The descriptions of how our emotions impact our bodies is very useful for children to understand what they are feeling and why. It is written in a way that my 2 and 4 year olds could identify and relate. The illustrations helped facilitate discussions about how our emotions can impact each other and we can feel more than one at a time.

The information at the back of the book for parents and caregivers was helpful.

Illustrations are colorful and captivating. The Illustrations helped communicate the message effectively and prompted good questions.

Will be recommending to friends with kids in a similar age group (2-5).

Awesome Dawson helps kids identify how different emotions feel in the body and what might cause them. More importantly, it gives some suggestions of tangible things to do if feelings get too big. This would be a great resource for early elementary classrooms.

Thanks to Boys Town Press and NetGalley for an eARC of this book for an honest review.

A sweet book on learning what emotions are and how to deal with when they get too big, but also how they keep us safe. It a little gimmicky with the squishi which you can buy, but helpful all the same.

Thank you for the ARC. This book did an incredible job describing emotions and showing children they are in charge of those emotions. I loved that each emotion had its own color coordinated to it. The visuals were great and illustrations were on point. This will be a really helpful book as my toddler gets older. He’s already going through many emotions so I can wait to buy this and read it together once he understands more.

This book is both adorable and useful.
I read this with my toddler and she enjoyed reading and talking about it. I really liked that the emotions had their own colors and could see them taking over Dawson’s body and how big emotions look. The visuals made the conversations about big feeling go smoothly. The tips page at the back was helpful too! It’s nice to have reminders because sometimes it’s easy to feel out of control when kids act out from their big emotions.

This book does a really good job of explaining emotions for younger kids. I really like that it not only describes the emotions but also how even an emotion like anger can be a good thing and it provides coping skills for kids.