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Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip : A Book About How Feelings Feel - Kris Downing

Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip

A Book About How Feelings Feel

By: Kris Downing, Vivian Mineker (Illustrator)

Hardcover | 29 December 2025

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In Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip, children learn to notice body sensations, name emotions, and respond to feelings through engaging text and vivid illustrations.



Help children understand how emotions feel in the body, and what their sensations are trying to tell them.



Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip helps children recognize how their bodies respond to emotions. Happiness might feel warm and tingly. Embarrassment might feel hot and prickly. Fantastical illustrations depict a young girl's emotional journey through larger-than-life scenarios, sparking readers' imaginations. Through simple, engaging text, this book helps children learn the body's language, so they can decode the sensations they feel, name their emotions, and learn to self-regulate.



With a glossary, discussion questions, and activities at the back of the book, Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip helps you guide children in responding to the body's messages by taking action to feel better.



This book:



  • Shows how emotions like happiness, anger, confusion, and guilt feel in the body
  • Presents common emotions in rich sensory language that's easy to follow
  • Features fun, immersive illustrations that help bring feelings to life
  • Helps teach kids what to do when their bodies and minds feel dysregulated


Current brain research on emotional regulation shows it's important for children to learn to feel their physical sensations and understand what their body is telling them. Written by an experienced licensed clinical social worker and somatic experiencing practitioner, this book is a great resource for parents, teachers, psychologists, and caregivers looking for children's books on body awareness and understanding emotions.

Industry Reviews

"Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip is a beautiful book that engages children in noticing the sensations that show up in their bodies alongside their emotions. Its a wonderful resource that will empower children and the adults who care about them to name the sensations and emotions they feel." -Gabi Garcia, licensed professional counselor and author of Listening to My Body



"Tummies Flip, Hearts Skip playfully invites kids curiosity about the subtleties underneath big emotions. Kris Downings scientific grounding in how a childs awareness of physical sensations drives their well-being led her to create an appetizing menu of words to help children understand and describe whats happening inside. Each page is rich with color, motion, and fantastic illustrations to match body language with every feeling." -Maggie Kline, family therapist, school psychologist, Somatic Experiencing faculty, co-author with Peter A. Levine of Trauma Through a Childs Eyes, and author of My Inner Doggie Is Growling

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