California Reading Association’s 221 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children’s Book Awards Gold Award WinnerAn imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration.Emotions are like animals:

No two are quite the same.

Some are quiet; some are fierce;

And all are hard to tame.Children experience all sorts of emotions: sometimes going through several very different ones before breakfast. Yet they can struggle to put these feelings into words. An inability to understand and communicate their moods can lead to bad behavior, deep frustration, and a whole host of difficulties further down the line. Like adults, they need help to recognize and verbalize their inner state. The greater their emotional vocabulary, the more likely they are to grow into happy, healthy, and fulfilled adults.An Emotional Menagerie is an emotional glossary for children. A book of 26 rhyming poems, arranged alphabetically, that bring our feelings to