An engaging story that helps children work with difficult emotions by imagining them as playful monsters in a parade (ages 3-7).

Watch as the anger monster passes and the sadness monster disappears--it's all part of the parade of feelings we experience every day. Instead of holding on to their emotions, kids can acknowledge them and let them go on their way.

What's happening in your parade today?

Here's the angry monster
Headed this way
It growls so loud
But you know it won't stay

WENDY O'LEARY, MEd, is a mindfulness educator and a certified meditation and yoga teacher with a long-standing personal meditation practice. Wendy's books are based on her 15-plus years of experience teaching mindfulness and skills for emotional awareness and regulation to children and "their adults." She is a certified parent educator and an online contributor to Mindful Magazine. She is the co-author of Breathing Makes It Better: A Book for Sad Days, Mad Days, Glad Days, and All the Feelings In-Between (Bala Kids, 2019).

NOÉMIE GIONET LANDRY grew up in a small coastal town of New Brunswick, Canada, surrounded by the ocean. Growing up, she was telling everyone she wanted to become either a doctor or a children's book illustrator. Midway through med school, she decided she would do both. She now shares her time between the hospital (where she works as a rheumatologist) and her home studio, where she sketches, draws, and paints surrounded by her wife, two tiny Chihuahuas, and two cats.