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From happy or delighted to grumpy or jealous, each of the characters in bustling scenes experience hundreds of emotions and offer a unique opportunity to help children develop their visual and emotional literacy. The My Big Wimmelbooks® series is an effortless introduction to literacy that lets beginning readers ages 2 to 5 be the storyteller—with hours of seek-and-find, hands-on learning.
My Big Wimmelbook®—Find Your Feelings helps kids recognize and name their feelings—both big and small. This wimmelbook is the first in our series to encourage emotional literacy by engaging kids in the recognition of body language, facial expressions, and the context of a scene to figure out what a character might be feeling. First introduced to emotions like joy, surprise, and anger, children are then invited to find characters experiencing those feelings in the village, park, schoolroom, treehouse, swimming pool, or magic castle. Bursting with color and humor, Find Your Feelings helps kids connect the feelings they’ve experienced themselves with the people, places, and animals in these lively scenes, fostering the development of emotional intelligence at the earliest levels.
Wimmelbooks are oversize board books with every page bursting with life—and tons to discover! It’s up to kids to interpret the scenes and create stories they think fit, creating hours upon hours of fun—and an effortless introduction to literacy, to boot.
About Wimmelbooks
Wimmelbooks originated in Germany decades ago and have become a sensation with children (and adults!) worldwide. My Big Wimmelbooks® is the first-ever English-language wimmelbook series. Its books have been praised as “lively . . . and abounding with humor and detail” (WSJ) and likely to “make any parent’s heart sing” (NYT).
“The large board books in the My Big Wimmelbook series are full of lively, crowded tableaux of people and animals going about their business in different settings. [Wimmelbooks] abound with witty details to draw in younger children . . . and older toddlers will want to follow the wordless interactions that spill from one page to the next in these eventful pictures.”—The Wall Street Journal
“You know the kid who can conjure an entire imaginary world by animating, say, the sugar packets she finds at the restaurant table? That one will thank you when you put any volume of My Big Wimmelbook in front of her. . . . Picture Richard Scarryesque, diorama-like spreads with a hint of Where’s Waldo junior detective. The combination should encourage long contemplative sit-downs that will make any parent’s heart sing.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Wimmelbooks offer limitless engagement for little kids—think updated, culturally relevant versions of Where’s Waldo.”—Fanny Singer and Greta Caruso, The Green Spoon
“An opening spread outlines particular characters and objects for readers to locate, including a couple with a selfie stick, reporters on the scene, and a pizza delivery man. . . . The spreads aren’t as jam-packed as a typical Where’s Waldo panorama, allowing for younger readers to spot characters and objects with ease.”—Publishers Weekly
“With My Big Wimmelbooks, kids experience their self-efficacy as something special, which makes them proud and, in turn, activates new ‘learning.’ The inner motivation that comes with their desire to satisfy their curiosity is the ultimate source of ongoing learning.”—Dr. Kristina Unterweger, educational psychologist
