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Little Unicorn / Les émotions de Gaston
Emoțiile lui Noni: Îmi este frică!
Noni este un mic unicorn ca toți ceilalți, doar că... Părul din coama sa își schimbă culorile în funcție de emoțiile sale!
În seara aceasta, lui Noni îi este frică. Este ora de culcare și totul este întunecat. Descoperă cum își va recăpăta el buna dispoziție!
O întâmplare de-a lui Noni + Un exercițiu de respirație = Zero frică!
O colecție de povestiri care ajută la învățarea și gestionarea emoțiilor. Scrise și ilustrate de Aurélie Chien Chow Chine, specialist în sofrologie.
În seara aceasta, lui Noni îi este frică. Este ora de culcare și totul este întunecat. Descoperă cum își va recăpăta el buna dispoziție!
O întâmplare de-a lui Noni + Un exercițiu de respirație = Zero frică!
O colecție de povestiri care ajută la învățarea și gestionarea emoțiilor. Scrise și ilustrate de Aurélie Chien Chow Chine, specialist în sofrologie.
28 pages, Hardcover
First published February 7, 2018
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About the author
Aurélie Chien Chow Chine
65 books5 followersAurélie Chien Chow Chine is a French artist who worked for ten years as an animator for cartoon series and movies. In addition to being an artist, she holds a master’s degree in information and communications with a focus in child psychology from the Sorbonne Nouvelle. She now runs workshops on relaxation and emotion management for children in schools and recreation centers in France. The picture book series featuring Little Unicorn is her debut as author-illustrator.
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September 27, 2021
O medo, para os mais pequenos, é uma emoção que começa a surgir a partir dos três anos e que as crianças associam, numa primeira fase, ao escuro e ao ficarem sozinhos. "Estou com medo" mostra exactamente o sentimento que o Gastão tem de medo em relação ao escuro que fica no seu quarto quando a noite chega e é hora de ir dormir. Ter medo é algo normal, desde que não seja nada de exagerado e que impeça a criança de funcionar normalmente no seu dia-a-dia. Por isso, é muito importante que se fala desta e de outras emoções para que os mais pequenos se sintam à vontade em expressar as suas emoções, para os ajudarmos a compreender o que estão a sentir e a conseguir passar das emoções menos positivas para as emoções mais positivas. Os livros são óptimas ferramentas para explorar as emoções, através do que as personagens das histórias sentem em cada momento, e que ajudam a desenvolver a inteligência emocional dos mais novos. Um livro com exercício de respiração para afastar o medo e que pode ser bem divertido para os mais pequenos.
July 12, 2019
I just pasted this review from Little Unicorn is Angry because they're basically the same book: A little didactic, but using unicorn fever to teach emotional awareness is a technique I can support.
Also, I just noticed that is says "Bonus Breathing Exercise Inside," as if there are editions of this that DON'T have it. Without the breathing exercise, this book would be basically useless. Also, the breathing exercise are basically the same in each book, but with different visualization techniques.
Also, I just noticed that is says "Bonus Breathing Exercise Inside," as if there are editions of this that DON'T have it. Without the breathing exercise, this book would be basically useless. Also, the breathing exercise are basically the same in each book, but with different visualization techniques.
April 24, 2021
انتشارات پرتقال، سری کتابهای شوشین درباره احساسات برای کودکان رو ترجمه کرده.
شخصیت داستانها یه یونیکورنه که یال رنگارنگی داره ولی گاهی یالش تکرنگ میشه، مثلا وقتی عصبانیه، قرمز میشه، ناراحت آبی میشه، میرسه سبز میشه
و تو هر جلد به یکی از این احساسات میپردازه و یاد میده اگه دچار این احساس شدی، چه باید کنی که کنترلش کنی
شخصیت داستانها یه یونیکورنه که یال رنگارنگی داره ولی گاهی یالش تکرنگ میشه، مثلا وقتی عصبانیه، قرمز میشه، ناراحت آبی میشه، میرسه سبز میشه
و تو هر جلد به یکی از این احساسات میپردازه و یاد میده اگه دچار این احساس شدی، چه باید کنی که کنترلش کنی
October 10, 2019
I’m a foster mom and bedtime is triggering. This book has been helpful to the 7 year old to recognize he’s not alone and it’s a good start for a conversation around fear and emotions. It’s a good book for him, his emotional and age range.
April 6, 2021
Featured in a grandma reads session.
Little Unicorn is all about emotions, and in this specific book, he/she/they/it is concerned with fear and being scared. Mostly of the dark. At night. Bedtime. Alone. All kinds of manipulations and schemes to distract caretakers that 1) it really isn't bedtime or 2) elaborate nighttime rituals to put off that final moment of separation - kid bedroom v parental bedroom. A terrifying moment, subject to all kinds of ridicule, but absolute real nonetheless.
A simple, sweet book about a moment in time that just about everyone has had in some form or the other. There is a breathing exercise included, with step that includes donning on imaginary armor to get one through the night by the time the exercise is completed. Very cute. Half of my group admired with nods, and half allowed themselves knowing, older kid smiles. We went through the exercise once, which left me with the rare thought that it is for this sort of response that groups are divided by age. . . .ah well. The ones who need it will remember and the ones who don't will be fast asleep.
Little Unicorn is all about emotions, and in this specific book, he/she/they/it is concerned with fear and being scared. Mostly of the dark. At night. Bedtime. Alone. All kinds of manipulations and schemes to distract caretakers that 1) it really isn't bedtime or 2) elaborate nighttime rituals to put off that final moment of separation - kid bedroom v parental bedroom. A terrifying moment, subject to all kinds of ridicule, but absolute real nonetheless.
A simple, sweet book about a moment in time that just about everyone has had in some form or the other. There is a breathing exercise included, with step that includes donning on imaginary armor to get one through the night by the time the exercise is completed. Very cute. Half of my group admired with nods, and half allowed themselves knowing, older kid smiles. We went through the exercise once, which left me with the rare thought that it is for this sort of response that groups are divided by age. . . .ah well. The ones who need it will remember and the ones who don't will be fast asleep.
October 2, 2019
I am simply going to repeat what I wrote about Little Unicorn Is Angry:
Little Unicorn Is Scared is about feelings, with examples of why a child might feel them, how they manifest themselves and a handy dandy breathing technique for calming those feelings.
Really? A 4 year old can't just be a 4 year old without self examination of a feeling he won't understand, and that will change and be forgotten within moments?
This expectation of assigning very young children to explain their emotions and charging them with understanding and fixing them is getting weary. How soon will they move down to babies?
This type of book is just not for me. I won't be requesting any more of them from my library because while they focus on how the young CHILD can solve his disturbing feelings they seem to forget, to omit, one important thing - a loving adult to soothe and comfort them.
Little Unicorn Is Scared is about feelings, with examples of why a child might feel them, how they manifest themselves and a handy dandy breathing technique for calming those feelings.
Really? A 4 year old can't just be a 4 year old without self examination of a feeling he won't understand, and that will change and be forgotten within moments?
This expectation of assigning very young children to explain their emotions and charging them with understanding and fixing them is getting weary. How soon will they move down to babies?
This type of book is just not for me. I won't be requesting any more of them from my library because while they focus on how the young CHILD can solve his disturbing feelings they seem to forget, to omit, one important thing - a loving adult to soothe and comfort them.
August 10, 2023
Who knew that there was a Little Unicorn picture book series, and that rather than being about wonder and glorious mystery --
really, Goodreaders, when you think of unicorns, don't you think, "Glorious"?
But no. The Little Unicorn picture books are supposed to help children to cope with strong feelings.
* That's right, psychotherapy in a book.
* Child psychologist between covers.
* A breathing exercise is even included, wow!
HOW TO RATE THIS CONCEPT, AND THIS BOOK?
For parents who long to work on perfecting their children psychologically by the age of 10? Good luck with that.
Still, you're the intended audience for this book. So FIVE STARS.
In a COMMENTS box below, I'll share my personal reaction to this how-to book for fixing Little Unicorn.
really, Goodreaders, when you think of unicorns, don't you think, "Glorious"?
But no. The Little Unicorn picture books are supposed to help children to cope with strong feelings.
* That's right, psychotherapy in a book.
* Child psychologist between covers.
* A breathing exercise is even included, wow!
HOW TO RATE THIS CONCEPT, AND THIS BOOK?
For parents who long to work on perfecting their children psychologically by the age of 10? Good luck with that.
Still, you're the intended audience for this book. So FIVE STARS.
In a COMMENTS box below, I'll share my personal reaction to this how-to book for fixing Little Unicorn.
January 20, 2022
Jednoduchoučké příběhy o jednorožci Emilovi s duhovou hřívou u nás doma překvapivě slaví úspěch dlouhodobě - ač se ani jedno z dětí dechové techniky moc často nesnaží používat, přijdou jim zřejmě natolik legrační, že knížky chtějí číst pořád dokola :) Rozhodně funguje dobře jako námět k povídání o emocích a dokáže dětem dobře přiblížit jednotlivé pocity prostřednictvím jednoduše a výstižně ztvárněných známých situací. A ten nápad se změnami barvy hřívy podle pocitů je prostě skvělý. Kdyby tak měli podobný ukazatel nálad i lidi, svět by byl mnohem jednodušší.
July 29, 2019
This companion book to Little Unicorn is Angry, has the same character, who is normally just fine, experiencing fear at bedtime. Little Unicorn loves the daytime and all the fun things to do in the sunshine. But when it's nighttime, he eats his dinner super slowly and brings a big stack of books to bed so his mom will take a long time reading them all. When the lights are finally turned off and Little Unicorn is in bed, he practices breathing techniques to help him deal with his fear.
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November 1, 2022This cute little unicorn is usually a very happy unicorn, but in this book he is scared of the dark at bedtime. The story explains a breathing technique that the little unicorn can use to calm his fears, and that kids can try too.
Good for discussing emotions with toddlers.
Good for discussing emotions with toddlers.
March 31, 2023
I find it quite in poor taste to ask the children how they are feeling immediately after telling them that the unicorn is feeling dreadful and is having a horrible day. The breathing exercise included might work, but otherwise the story is not anything special.
December 28, 2025
Overall, this is a decent story about teaching kids fear. The illustrations are okay, and the story is fine. It’s really not very memorable so I would rate 3/5 stars ⭐️ and recommend for kids ages 4 and up.
July 19, 2019
Little Unicorn is scared of the dark, but with the help of his parents, and breathing exercises he is able to gain control of his feelings and get a good night's sleep.
July 27, 2019
So good I had to buy it.
August 18, 2019
Super cute my daughter love me reading this to them!
August 20, 2019
Barely a story. And the mane colors are all wrong. Jealous should be green, scared should be yellow. Couldn't get past the mismatch of color to emotion.
September 4, 2019
A good series to help kids work through their emotions
October 14, 2019
عنوان ترجمه فارسی: من گاستون ترسو هستم
December 17, 2019
This is a great book to show different emotions as well has giving a technique to try and calm your fears.
January 5, 2020
There is little more hilarious than watching two four year olds doing the breathing exercise in this book!
January 28, 2022
Social Emotional
Cute little book about a unicorn and their feelings. Should be a good series for social emotional reading with the littles.
Cute little book about a unicorn and their feelings. Should be a good series for social emotional reading with the littles.
May 19, 2024
Great start for dealing with emotions.
May 5, 2025
Mais um livro simples para a criança perceber as emoções e como lidar com elas através da respiração.
April 29, 2021
Little Unicorn feels scared.
"Little Unicorn has to fall asleep in the dark. He’s scared."
Like other young unicorns, as well as young readers, Little Unicorn feels many different emotions. In this story, Little Unicorn feels scared, which makes his rainbow mane turn green.
Little Unicorn doesn’t like going to sleep alone in the dark, which is experience many children share. Rather than having a nightlight and a teddy bear, Little Unicorn uses a breathing exercise and visualizes himself wearing “armor of courage to tame his fear.”
This picture book helps teach emotional awareness, which enables children to identify and express their emotions, introduces the idea of emotional self-regulation, which allows children to manage their emotions and behavior in accordance to the needs of a situation, and demonstrates a coping skill, which helps children master emotional self-regulation.
The story discusses a common feeling and a common experience to which most readers can relate.
It also affords the opportunity for caregivers to discuss emotions with young readers. At the very beginning, when the narrator tells how Little Unicorn is feeling ( Awful! ), she breaks the fourth wall and asks the reader how s/he is feeling today. The choices are framed in a way that small children can intuit: a rainbow, a sun, a sun with a cloud, a grey cloud, a dark gray raining cloud, and a black cloud with lightning.
"Little Unicorn has to fall asleep in the dark. He’s scared."
Like other young unicorns, as well as young readers, Little Unicorn feels many different emotions. In this story, Little Unicorn feels scared, which makes his rainbow mane turn green.
Little Unicorn doesn’t like going to sleep alone in the dark, which is experience many children share. Rather than having a nightlight and a teddy bear, Little Unicorn uses a breathing exercise and visualizes himself wearing “armor of courage to tame his fear.”
This picture book helps teach emotional awareness, which enables children to identify and express their emotions, introduces the idea of emotional self-regulation, which allows children to manage their emotions and behavior in accordance to the needs of a situation, and demonstrates a coping skill, which helps children master emotional self-regulation.
The story discusses a common feeling and a common experience to which most readers can relate.
It also affords the opportunity for caregivers to discuss emotions with young readers. At the very beginning, when the narrator tells how Little Unicorn is feeling ( Awful! ), she breaks the fourth wall and asks the reader how s/he is feeling today. The choices are framed in a way that small children can intuit: a rainbow, a sun, a sun with a cloud, a grey cloud, a dark gray raining cloud, and a black cloud with lightning.
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