Book Title: Yummy Me Feels So Good by Lion I Am

Category: Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-7), 36 pages

Publisher: Funny Bird Production

Release date: January, 2020

Synopsis

Yummy Me Feels So Good isn’t just another storybook. It is something you can use with your kids and grandkids for many years. Simple and childlike, kids identify with the gentle creatures within. Absolutely beautiful, Yummy Me is a genius way of helping children immediately connect with the world of emotions through enchanting animal friends. The images and words are so simple and therefore can be grasped by children and adults of all ages. The book can easily open up space for a dialogue about emotions between an adult and a child, all the while being playfully disguised as animal talk. Children laugh and grimace as they flip through the pages, mirroring the emotions they feel on the pages. Yummy Me is a great doorway to explore the sometimes difficult arena of emotions, both for children, teachers, and parents.

Rather than labeling certain emotions as “good” or “bad”, these emotions simply get space to be as they are and encourage the reader to remember that they too will pass. The final message of the book that we are in fact “none of these” me’s is a loving reminder that at any moment we can start our day again from joy. “I have seen firsthand how taking out this book can transform a child’s tantrum into a smile and eventually bursts of laughter.

Praise

“Lion I AM validates and assists children to experience emotions in a conscious manner — essential to learning and gaining self-knowledge. Scientific research has demonstrated that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. Yummy Me Feels So Good will help you and your child learn to be “Lions of Love,” to consciously choose and express effectively what you are feeling. Being watchful and strong like the Lion brings acceptance and maturity in the ever changing world of feelings. Then everyone can share this “feeling of magic” and joy with others.” – Harold H Bloomfield MD, N.Y. Times bestselling author 

Review

I enjoy reading children’s books now and then because a hidden message can almost always be found that is teaching children something but in a fun and colorful way.  This book achieves that goal.  This book teaches children about feelings and emotions and that it is ok to have different feelings and emotions throughout the day.  All people feel different emotions at different times depending on the situation, their surroundings, and how they feel that day. I think this book could open up some dialogues about how kids are feeling at different times.

The illustrations in this book sum up the various emotions nicely.  A smiley face for a happy me, a pufferfish for a grumpy me, and a bear for a fuzzy me.  The illustrations are colorful and some appear to have been drawn by a child while other drawings are a little more advanced.  But all of the illustrations fit the accompanying text.

I think this book would be a great addition to any child’s library and allow the parents to read the book with the child especially in different emotional states.

We give this book 4 paws up.

About the Author

The author Lion I Am lives on a beautiful island with lots of trees and animals. He likes quiet spaces in nature just like his animal friends. He enjoys talking to the turtles, dolphins, and whales when they’re around. Like the Lion, he enjoys relaxing in nature and listening to the sounds of the birds and animals and that of the wind in the trees and bamboos. He especially loves the beach and the ocean surf. One of his favorite things is swimming in the strong waves in the ocean. He loves playing with children and animals. They help him laugh at all his passing Me’s and his funny moods. The children and animals remind him to be grateful for life here on this beautiful Earth. ​ Lion I Am loves to visit with teachers and children who read the Lion I Am books together and share their feelings and playfulness together. The Funny Bird Productions mop top birds sing “All there is Love, Love is all there is. Love is all there is, All you need is Love” They know the important things in life.

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