Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day

My four-year-old asks for this one every single night now. The illustrations by Laura Cornell are so expressive that she points at the characters and tells me exactly how they're feeling before we even read the words. It is the perfect way to talk about big emotions with a little one.

The rhyming text is genuinely fun to read aloud, and my daughter now shouts "silly!" whenever she's in a goofy mood. The illustrations are so expressive that she points out each character's face before we even turn the page. It's become our go-to for talking about grumpy mornings.

My three-year-old asks for this one every single night now. The way the illustrations capture each mood, like the messy-haired silliness on one page and the droopy-eyed sad one on the next, makes it so easy for her to point and say how she's feeling. We've started naming our own moods before dinner,