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Inspector Croc's Emotion-O-Meter
by Susanna Isern, Teddi Rachlin, Mónica Carretero, Ben Dawlatly, Rebecca Packard
This book is a well done educational tool. I think it is too long for a bedtime story, or standard picture book, but I can see a teacher or caregiver choosing an emotion a day or week and working lessons around it. The book is divided into the various emotions and the signs of that emotion. It looks at how to recognize it, who to tell how strong it is, and things that might happen when it is being felt. It mixes “cases” or real scenes with informational pages to keep things flowing. I like how each emotion is a character with a name, a color and a shape. Overall, this is very well done. I have a few problems, mostly small and not worth mentioning, except when talking about reactions and physical changes, the book mentions “turn pale, sometimes as white as snow”. I take exception to the “white as snow” because it assumes all people are as white as the cartoon bunny in the illustration. To be pale means different things if the reader of a different skin color. To this reader, it appears to say all this books readers will be Caucasian. I think this line and example needs a little work.