A Little SPOT of Optimism by Diane Alber

The illustrations in the book are gorgeous with lots of simple but effective images making it clear that anything in one colour relates to an emotion. This is great for children to see and think about how they show love to their loved ones. I like this way of explanation as it helps children see that one feeling can really be a combination of feelings all at once.Īs you go through the book there are lots of easy to understand explanations of how you can show others love either through words or actions. The book starts by explaining love and showing how some other feelings can effect or create love. I would have this book in my future classroom and read it out loud to my students.Ī Little Spot of Love is a beautiful book to show why love is so important and how you can help others or yourself to feel love.Īs with other books in this series, it makes an emotion really easy to understand for children. I think this book is so helpful and beneficial for children, I definitely want to check out the other books in the series.

It gave examples for each category and explained that people like to show love in different ways. It also broke down the different ways to show love to someone words, actions, quality time, gifts, and affection. This is so important for a child's self esteem. It talked about doing activities you enjoy and being confident in yourself, and speaking kindly to yourself. This book did a great job of talking about loving someone else, but also growing self love. I also think it is cool that the author is also the illustrator. I liked the illustrations for this one because the love spot character was colorful and the pages were happy and fun to look at.

Again I was really impressed with how helpful this book was in explaining emotions to children. I thought the previous book I read, which is from this series, was really helpful-so when I saw this book I wanted to read it as well.

A Little SPOT of Optimism by Diane Alber