Angry Axel: a Picture Book About Naming Big Feeling

Axel's horns go red when he is angry. Today they are VERY red.Axel the Bull is the loudest, stompiest, strongest friend in Steam City - and when a game goes wrong, he roars, he stomps, and everyone scatters. Then one morning the streets are empty, and Axel finds out where his friends have gone.This is a story about a big feeling and the words that tame it. Axel learns to spot his own warning sign, to stop, and to say the word out loud: "I feel ANGRY." Written in bouncy read-aloud rhyme for ages 4-7, with a feelings chart, six talk-about-it questions and a three-step practice at the back for grown-ups who want to go further.Written by Dr Hb Lo, an Australian family doctor and dad, and built on the RULER approach to emotional learning from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.Grow with the Eni-mates. Eight feelings, eight friends: Angry Axel, Anticipating Andy, Disgusted Denise, Fearful Felicia, Joyful Jenny & Sad Sam, Sad Samuel, Surprised Samantha and Trusting Tom - plus First Feelings board books for 2-4s, Shades of Feeling early readers for 7-9s, and Compound Feelings chapter books for 9-12s.