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What Feelings Like Best

September 18, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

What a stunning sequel to What Feelings Do When No One Is Looking! What Feelings Like Best takes us on a whimsical journey with our feelings. Who does Curiosity hang out with? Why does Courage think her elder brother is actually the braver one? Where must Gratitude search for beautiful little bits and bobs to hang on to?

Book cover
Tina Oziewicz & Aleksandra Zając
What Feelings Like Best
Illustration of a furry grey creature happily gazing at a strawberry plant

I didn’t stop smiling as I read What Feelings Like Best. All the feelings Tina Oziewicz writes about came alive to me—Tenderness, Joy and Contentment, of course, but also all the negative ones like Malice and Worthlessness. Through this gorgeous picture book, we see a fabric of emotions gorgeously woven together. We see how Common Sense gets the better of Stubbornness, and we see why Stubbornness matters. Worthlessness, living in her little dustbin, ironically, has value too, for she treasures everything that no one else does. And in the drawers that Memory hides away, Gratitude begins to hunt. She knows why the negative memories are marked as important. But she also knows that if she hunts, she can curl up with everything she is grateful for. 

Beginning and ending with Nostalgia, What Feelings Like Best comes full circle in the best possible way, leaving us ready to read the whole book once more, lingering on the pictures and delighting in the detail.

TitleWhat Feelings Like Best
Author
Illustrator
Tina Oziewicz
Aleksandra Zając
TagsPicture Book, Emotions
AgesAll (but adults might enjoy it more!)
Rating (out of 5)5

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Aleksandra Zajac, Picture Book, reading, review, Tina Oziewicz, What Feelings Like Best

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