Catie Lehman, author of What’s Your Love Shape, used to be a preschool teacher at a reggio-emilia school in Los Angeles. She saw that her 4-5 year-old students had a deep capacity to understand complex emotional topics and have very inspirational conversations from books that focused on emotional intelligence.

She wanted to create her own book that focused on emotional intelligence, sparked interesting conversation, and also summarized her experience meeting people from all over the world while living abroad.

What’s Your Love Shape explores how everyone shows and feels loved in different ways. Depicting this complex concept through shapes makes it easy for children to understand and relate to.

Some emotional intelligence concepts covered in this book include self-awareness (understanding one’s own love shape), social awareness (understanding other peoples’ love shapes), and perspective taking (understanding others might have a different love shape than their own).

While children of all ages can appreciate this book, it is ideally for children between the ages of 3-6 years old.

Children’s books that focus on various elements of emotional intelligence are a great educational tool.

What’s Your Love Shape is a great book for teaching emotional intelligence as it focuses on perspective taking, self-awareness, and social-awareness.

Yes, reading books with emotional intelligence themes greatly improves emotional intelligence for both adults and children.

What’s Your Love Shape is a book published in 2021 where adults and children can explore various aspects of emotional intelligence such as perspective taking, self-awareness, and social-awareness.

The paperback version of What’s Your Love Shape is available for $16.95.

The digital version (ebook) is $9.95 USD.

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Aside from What’s Your Love Shape, I recommend:

1. The Way I Feel  By: Janan Cain
2. In My Heart By: Jo Witek
3. My Mouth is A Volcano By: Julia Cook
4. The Feelings Book By: Todd Parr

Social emotional books are books that teach children about various social & emotional intelligence concepts.

For example, in What’s Your Love Shape, by Catie Lehman, children learn perspective taking, self-awareness, and social-awareness.