

The heart cut out is also surrounded by an image that goes with an image enhancing the text. The illustrations in this book are set against a bright white background and each page has a heart cut out that decreases in size as the story progresses. This is one I enjoyed reading, “My heart grows tall, like a plant reaching toward the sky.” Another highlight for readers is while we have different feelings on different days our heart doesn’t always stay in one feeling. Some of the descriptions also include a simile which helps the reader anchor the emotion to something concrete. The book begins by exploring a feeling per page and what that might feel like. In My Heart – A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek lets readers explore a wide range of feelings brave, happy, mad, broken, hopeful, afraid, and silly to name a few.

One of my current interests is finding books that help us process and promote mental wellnesss.
