What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking is truly a masterpiece! A children’s story that inspires us to feel. Every single feeling is articulated beautifully with illustrations that reflect it perfectly. A must read for everyone! – Momma Braga
Synopsis
Curiosity, a lithe and floppy-eared creature, perches above the open world and gazes out with a zippy blend of hope, wonder, and longing. From the tip of a chimney, we bound into the quiet and mischievous world of feelings, meeting a troupe of tufted creatures. Sympathy helps snails cross a sidewalk to safety, fear pirouettes in an attempt to camouflage with wallflowers, and a please reclines on a doily-donned reading chair, sipping a cup of tea. Elsewhere, our insecurities – pesky, cavorting beings – build intricate cages and stride about with clatterings sets of keys.
Tina Oziewicz’s words hum with truth, and Aleksandra Zajac’s illustrations bloom and burst with charming details like a snail constructed out of a pair of billowing long johns or a red slipper falling from a contented paw.
#MelAndNikkiReview
What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking is truly a masterpiece! A children’s story that inspires us to feel. Every single feeling is articulated beautifully with illustrations that reflect it perfectly.
For this #MelAndNikkiReview, we give this book 5 stars out of 5! A children’s book that really shows what each feeling is about in the most creative way, through metaphorical text and engaging illustrations. It truly will open up the conversations about feelings and how some people express them. Even the feelings that are a bit harder to articulate, it is described beautifully in this story.
We truly recommend this book to everyone. Speaking of feelings is so important especially for children. We all know how hard it is sometimes to express and cope with feelings. This book allows the conversation to happen in the most beautiful way, through a story.
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About the Author and Illustrator
Tina Oziewicz is a Polish author and translator of children’s literature. While working as a translator and teacher, she began writing stories for children and published her first picture book in 2007. She has since published ten works of children’s literature.
Aleksandra Zajac is a graduate of the Art Department at Opole University. She works in drawing, clay, and graphic design. What Feelings Do When No One’s Looking is her debut publication.
Jennifer Croftwas was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 and a National Book Award Finalist for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is a founding editor of The Buenos Aires Review.
Until next time…Happy Parenting!
-Momma Braga
*This book was provided in exchange of an honest review. All opinions expressed are our own.
