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Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Shy

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Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Shy by Kay Barnham is a children's book that explores the experience of shyness through relatable storytelling. It introduces young readers to a character who navigates various social situations where they might feel shy. The book provides insights into why people feel this way and offers gentle suggestions on how to manage and overcome shyness in a positive and reassuring manner.
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This engaging children's book explores what it means to feel shy, making it perfect for young readers who may be grappling with similar emotions. It offers relatable scenarios and insightful guidance to help children understand and manage their feelings, fostering emotional intelligence and empathy. If you're interested in stories that gently teach important life skills and emotional awareness, this book might be an excellent choice.

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This picture book story shows why people feel shy and the best way to deal with this feeling

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This picture book story explores what it feels like to be shy using everyday scenes and situations that children might be familiar with—perfect for children who might be feeling shy themselves. Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Shy shows different reasons why young people might become shy, illustrates scenarios of them behaving shyly, and gives advice on how to become more confident and less shy.

Ideal for home or classroom, this book contains notes for parents and teachers with suggestions of ways to help children deal with this feeling.

Illustrated by the ever-popular and award-winning illustrator Mike Gordon, this book is part of a series of stories about feelings and emotions for 4 to 8-year-old children, which help children to understand their feelings and work out the best way to deal with them. This will boost their self-esteem and reinforce good behaviour. They support the Personal, Social, and Emotional Development Area of Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Other titles are: Feeling Frightened, Feeling Jealous, Feeling Sad, Feeling Shy and Feeling Worried.

Series: Feelings and Emotions

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  • Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Shy
    This picture book story explores what it feels like to be shy using everyday scenes and situations that children might be familiar with—perfect for children who might be feeling shy themselves. Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Shy shows different reasons why young people might become shy, illustrates scenarios of them behaving shyly, and gives advice on how to become more confident...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526300805

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wayland

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Mike Gordon
  • Illustrated by Mike Gordon
  • Illustrated by Mike Gordon

Audience: Primary and secondary education, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 109g

Pages: 32

About the Author

Kay Barnham (Author)

Kay Barnham was born in Barrow-in-Furness, grew up in Carlisle, went to college in Brighton, and lived in Hove for a while, before sailing for Kinsale, Co Cork, popping back to Hove and then moving to the New Forest with her husband and daughter. And never at any point has she lived more than ten miles from the sea. She began working in children's publishing in 1992. She was an editor first of all, working on illustrated non-fiction and learning fun facts like how long it would take to walk to the moon - nine years - and how to spell palaeontology. Next, she commissioned fiction titles, editing picture books, storybooks and novels. And then she got the chance to write her own books, which she thinks is quite the best job ever. Except possibly being a chocolatier. She writes non-fiction as Kay Barnham. Her specialist subjects include ice-skating, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, lightning, fairies, Roald Dahl, Sir Isaac Newton, Christmas, dolphins, Florence Nightingale and very bad cracker jokes. And chocolate. She also writes fiction as Kay Woodward, including the Skate School series for Usborne and the novels Jane Airhead and Wuthering Hearts for Andersen Press. Altogether, she's written about a hundred books. Her favourite colour is navy blue. Her favourite chocolate is 85% cocoa solids.

Mike Gordon (Illustrator)

Mike Gordon is an ever-popular and award-winning cartoonist. He has produced over 500 cards for Hallmark and over 300 picture books for various publishers. His talent has been rewarded with numerous awards inlcuding Berol cartoonist of the year (1988) and runner up for the Trento Fra realto e Follia (1990). He was also nominated for the Silver Quill Award (Germany, 1991) and for the Book and Magazine Illustrator of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society (1995).

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