Inside out inspired feelings, but make it a YA books

When the film Inside Out 2 came out, I decided to create an emotional reader consulting tool for my job for the library’s day. The premise was simple: take every emotion character and share a book that represents the emotion of this character.

My first RA tool was epic! It contains a delightful image of every character that I downloaded from the Internet. It looked great. And then my brain entered my librarian and I remembered that I committed massive copyright violations. So I looked for Canva and found Emojis to present every emotion. I was able to create a thematically consistent appearance with which I was satisfied. Did it look as cute as the character version? No. But it would stop me from being sued, so I went with this version. In fact, as a joke, I drove the “Sue Proof version” with the title for myself.

Funny fact: I had to see exactly what Ennui wanted to find a book for this category. Embolition and Ennui were the categories for which I found most difficult to find solid recommendations. The version of this I made for my work actually contained MG title. I spent a few evenings at home to revise this tool to do it. I wanted to see what I could think of.

Inside Out 2 shows a character that focuses on nostalgia. That’s why I recorded some Throwback -Ya recommendations. I also went to the backlist for some of the emotions and provided a combination of older and newer titles for this emotional reading adventure.

I would like to know which title you would insert in every category! Share your suggestions in the comments.

Filed at: Reader advice, the year of RA