The Grand Hotel of Feelings

by Lidia Brankovic, Natalya Aleksandrova (Translator)

Overview

Dobro pozhalovat v «Grand-otel chuvstv»! Zdes mozhet ostanovitsya lyuboe chuvstvo. Konechno, kazhdyy gost osobennyy, u kazhdogo svoi potrebnosti. Zlost, naprimer, uzhasno shumnaya, i ey nuzhno mnogo mesta. Grust govorit ochen tiho i chasto ustraivaet potop v vannoy. A Trevoga postoyanno menyaet svoy oblik i obozhaet byt v tsentre vnimaniya. Blagodarnost lyubit gulyat na prirode — nikogda ne znaesh, v kakoy moment ona reshit sostavit tebe kompaniyu. Odni chuvstva bolshie, drugie — malenkie, s odnimi legko, s drugimi — ochen neprosto, no ni odno chuvstvo nikogda ne progonyat. V «Grand-otele chuvstv» mesto naydyotsya kazhdomu! Krasivaya i metaforichnaya istoriya v estetike Uesa Andersona o slozhnosti emotsionalnogo menedzhmenta, rasskazannaya s teplotoy i yumorom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785961498295
Publisher:	Alpina Kids
Publication date:	08/19/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	13 MB
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Age Range:	6 - 12 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Lidia Brankovic graduated from FH-Potsdam in 2022. She takes inspiration from her hometown Berlin, its people and its culture. When she's not painting or writing, she enjoys dancing, meditating and taking long walks. The Grand Hotel of Feelings is her first book, and emerges from her own journeys through and with emotional turbulence.

Editorial Reviews

2023-06-08
A host of personified emotions stroll into a hotel while the manager strives to understand them all.

The Grand Hotel of Feelings is a large, opulent building with sparkly chandeliers and expansive windows. As the manager explains, there is always space available; every feeling is welcome, “no matter how difficult.” Sadness, for example, a greenish-blue creature with many tentacles, often floods the bathroom with tears. The manager has learned to listen very carefully. If not, “I won’t hear what Sadness is telling me and then he will stay for a very long time.” Gratitude, on the other hand, is a solid, dependable, white being who likes to sit quietly next to others, though it can be easy to take her for granted. Emotions can be tricky to understand; readers will appreciate that the author offers a tangible way to grasp the enormity. Here, the feelings are transient, and the manager learns new coping mechanisms from each visit. The only human at the hotel, the manager has pale skin and long white hair, while the emotions are an eclectic variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. The final page may raise eyebrows, with depictions of other hotels, some of which feel rooted in cultural stereotype (such as a vaguely Middle Eastern–looking palace, with a brown-skinned character riding a flying carpet). (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Quirky and expressive social-emotional learning. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews