ABOUT THE BOOK
Guess How Marion Feels 
Written by Miss Kaye
Illustrated by Miss Waitthk
Ages 3+ | 34 Pages
Publisher: Maya Nurtures (2024) | ISBN-13: 9781738593026
Publisher’s Book Summary: Marion is a kind, creative, and easy kid… but he’s faced with BIG emotions. Help Marion identify those BIG feelings in this interactive children’s picture book.
Guess How Marion Feels is a transformative experience that lays the foundation for emotional intelligence and meaningful connections. A gentle Social Emotional Learning (SEL) tool to guide parents, caregivers, and teachers to teach kids who struggle to pick up social cues and have challenges in social situations.
This book is made to celebrate and honor the feelings of our little ones, foster open communication, and create inclusive learning with our neurodivergent kids. Written by a neurodivergent author, Miss Kaye aims to support kids and everyone struggling with social interactions.
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MY REVIEW
This book tells the story of Marion’s first day of school and turns it into a guessing game for the reader. Coco the cat points out details like facial expressions and body language that can help readers identify each emotion. Together with the situation that Marion is experiencing, the clues make it easy to guess correctly. Coco also names each feeling so that there is no doubt. The things that happen throughout the story are very familiar to young students just starting school. Waking up, arriving at school, meeting the teacher and classmates for the first time, enjoying some of the activities, being frustrated by others, and finally talking the day over back at home with family - these are all fairly universal events for the first day of school. The illustrations clearly show all the details Coco points out - eyes, mouth, hands, posture. The text of the main story is in black lettering while the comments by Coco are in purple making them easy to differentiate. Being able to express feelings appropriately and to discuss them with others is a very helpful skill. Young children often do not have the vocabulary to identify their emotions and tell others how they feel about a situation. Stories like this are very helpful in providing that vocabulary.
Miss Kaye was born in the Philippines. She had challenges as an adult neurodivergent. This serves as her inspiration for writing fun, engaging, and educational stories to teach life skills and mindfulness to kids.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
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Miss Waitthk is from Hongkong. She enjoys making people feel happy and joyful through her drawings. As a kid, she remembered drawing anime characters and coloring them with colored pencils. Since then, she kept on drawing.
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