A review of childrens picture books Feelings of anger and sadness

The purpose of this study is to examine the use of feelings of anger and sadness in picture books for children written between 2015-2021 and the strategies used by characters in stories to deal decisively with these emotions. Turkish and Turkish translated books containing feelings of anger and sadness from children’s books published in Turkey between 2015-2021 constitute the working group of this study, which was designed as a document analysis under qualitative research designs. Research data were collected using” Book Imprint Form“,” Emotion Investigation Form in Text and Picture“,” Criteria List of Strategies for Dealing with Negative Emotions”. Research results show that in many different publishers, feelings of anger and sadness are included both in the text and in the visual, but more feelings of sadness are addressed. In the books examined, it has been concluded that emotions are mostly dealt with by animal heroes. Indeed, functional coping strategies with feelings of anger and sadness were also included in the picture books for children which are examined in this study.