Oh So Emo! is a children’s book that can work wonders for people of every age group to help understand their complex emotions in simple words. The book starts with how some monks have to change their location due to Chinese soldiers entering in their homes to take over the area. Doji one of the monks is the youngest of them but holds wisdom of worth more than that and has a speaking bird named Sku to whom he has been sharing with all his teachings to part to the world when time comes. When the monks started walking towards a safer spot for them Doji asks Sku to go and look for his first student who needs his help to understand their emotions.
The stories in the book are woven around children who are unaware of the emotions they feel and how they are impacting them. The book not only holds stories but also dedicated pages for different emotions that one feels, the words we use to describe them, things one can do to not let it consume you and affirmations and space for the reader to pen down their thoughts too. Each emotion is well explained in simple words so that anyone who reads it understands that they are not as big as we make them. Emotions can be controlled or understood and can have a positive impact on our life if handled properly.
The book for me was full of impactful things said so simply that they didn’t seem that difficult. My major takeaway from the book is one does have to be in full control of their emotions but can still not let them overtake them if handle them in the right manner, we are humans and are tend to feel things and even overthink too but can’t change the things we have no control over but we can at least control how they impact us.
What a beautiful children’s book that cannot only be a good fit for all readers but also act as a guide to understand the emotions we tend to make very complex and let them overwhelm and consume us.
I recommend everyone to read this book, it might not answer all your questions but will obviously be of some help.
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MY RATING -4/5
