Wild Feelings, too, encourages children to explore their feelings and emotions without feeling guilty for feeling. I did find the ending a bit abrupt but it’s probably because I have having too much fun and didn’t want the book to end. Wild Feelings is reminiscent of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are in more than just the animal costumes the kids are drawn in. Each feeling is accompanied by an animal, for example “stubborn as a mule” or as “chicken as a chicken” and this is illustrated by the child being dressed in the accompanying animal costume. My favourite part of the book, though, are the illustrations. The typography is big and bold with the size of the words expressing their meaning. Let’s start with the prose. The language used is fresh and playful with a healthy dose of onomatopoeia that will delight children when the book is read out loud. This little picturebook concerns itself with the exploration of feelings: wild feelings. From book jacket.Expected publication: August 4th 2015 by Henry Holt and Co. In this she brings the world of nature brilliantly alive in a nuanced, deeply felt appreciation of the human-animal bond.

She explores how this rapidly evolving, controversial field has only recently overturned old notions about why animals behave as they do.

Here the author transports us to field sites and laboratories around the world, introducing us to animal-cognition scientists and their surprisingly intelligent and sensitive subjects.

But how do scientists know these things? This book takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the inner world of animals and among the pioneering researchers who are leading the way into once-forbidden territory: the animal mind.

They have discovered that dogs have thousand-word vocabularies and that birds practice their songs in their sleep. They know that ants teach and rats love to be tickled. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin, or an elephant? Do they experience thoughts that are similar to ours, or have feelings of grief and love? These are tough questions, but scientists are answering them. This book explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.

Wild feelings by david milgrim