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Children's Books
Bright, colourful & beautifully illustrated,
Feeling Friends are a delightful cross between Dr. Seuss and Inside Out.
Join Sally and all her friends as they journey their way through their feelings, exploring fun rhymes and
big take-home messages.
Helps parents and kids alike deal with and express their feelings in constructive, healthy ways.
Sad Sally
Sally is sad. All the time. Things start to change When she comes across a wise frog along her path who gives her some great advice.
Mad Michael
Michael is mad. One day he meets a wise dog who helps him find better ways to deal with his big anger. Rhymes and smiles guaranteed!
Happy Hannah
Hannah is tired of being happy all the time! She has other feelings she wants to explore. Can the town handle the big changes in Hannah?
Nervous Nelly
Nelly is nervous about everything! What should she do? She doesn’t know ’till magical unicorn takes her on adventure she’ll never forget.
Video: Sad Sally read by the author
Click on the pictures to download and print:
“A child having repressed pent up feelings of sadness and a censored edict to not open up, leads to severe depression and an inability to experience love and life’s intimacy. Colleen Aynn’s ‘Sad Sally’ is a beautiful highly relatable tool for any psychologist, or child/youth worker to alleviate such suffering in children they’re entrusted to treat. A must arrow in your therapeutic quiver!”
– Dr. Stephen B. Stokl, FRCPC, Psychiatrist, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Author of
Mentally Speaking
Dealing with Feelings Brings Kids to a Healthier Place!
If children (and adults!) were meant to suppress their emotions …they wouldn’t have been born with them!
Think about it. We didn’t come into this world with our emotions so we could hide them. We came into this world so we could live through them.
Today, you have a FUN and REFRESHING chance to teach your children to identify and
channel their emotions in a responsible and constructive way!
...it’s Ok to show your feelings.
In her heartwarming Feeling Friends books, author Colleen Aynn, uses rhymes and colorful illustrations to teach children it’s Ok to cry and show emotions.
You’ll follow the story of Sad Sally, who is always sad …and won’t allow herself to have a good cry. That is, until she meets an old toad in the middle of the road.
The lesson Sally learns from the toad is it’s Ok to cry and show her feelings. Children will learn …
…When they allow themselves to act on their heartfelt emotions, their body and soul
will naturally recalibrate – and move them to a healthier place.
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“Sad Sally is an adorable book and truly unique. This story will inspire children to recognize their real feelings and invite them to express them in a way that will bring about joy and positive change. I truly love this book!”
– Peggy McColl, New York Times Best-Selling Author, aka “The Best Seller Maker”
Join Sally and all her friends as they journey their way through their feelings, exploring fun rhymes and
big take-home messages.
Helps parents and kids alike deal with and express their feelings in constructive, healthy ways.
Sally is sad. All the time. Things start to change When she comes across a wise frog along her path who gives her some great advice.
Mad Michael
Michael is mad. One day he meets a wise dog who helps him find better ways to deal with his big anger. Rhymes and smiles guaranteed!
Happy Hannah
Hannah is tired of being happy all the time! She has other feelings she wants to explore. Can the town handle the big changes in Hannah?
Nervous Nelly
Nelly is nervous about everything! What should she do? She doesn’t know ’till magical unicorn takes her on adventure she’ll never forget.
Video: Sad Sally read by the author
Click on the pictures to download and print:
“A child having repressed pent up feelings of sadness and a censored edict to not open up, leads to severe depression and an inability to experience love and life’s intimacy. Colleen Aynn’s ‘Sad Sally’ is a beautiful highly relatable tool for any psychologist, or child/youth worker to alleviate such suffering in children they’re entrusted to treat. A must arrow in your therapeutic quiver!”
– Dr. Stephen B. Stokl, FRCPC, Psychiatrist, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Author of
Mentally Speaking
Dealing with Feelings Brings Kids to a Healthier Place!
If children (and adults!) were meant to suppress their emotions …they wouldn’t have been born with them!
Think about it. We didn’t come into this world with our emotions so we could hide them. We came into this world so we could live through them.
Today, you have a FUN and REFRESHING chance to teach your children to identify and
channel their emotions in a responsible and constructive way!
...it’s Ok to show your feelings.
In her heartwarming Feeling Friends books, author Colleen Aynn, uses rhymes and colorful illustrations to teach children it’s Ok to cry and show emotions.
You’ll follow the story of Sad Sally, who is always sad …and won’t allow herself to have a good cry. That is, until she meets an old toad in the middle of the road.
The lesson Sally learns from the toad is it’s Ok to cry and show her feelings. Children will learn …
…When they allow themselves to act on their heartfelt emotions, their body and soul
will naturally recalibrate – and move them to a healthier place.
“With a simple and heart-warming story, Sad Sally reminds all of us, young and old, of the importance of accepting our emotions and staying true to ourselves and to our feelings. Wonderful story with a great moral.”
– Liana Palmerio-McIvor, Registered Psychotherapist
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