Karen White Porter M.Ed. NBCT is an educator and an author. She believes emotional intelligence is important for children's learning and development. Her students in Scotland, China, the USA have inspired her to write about emotion. She is author of the 'I Feel ¿ When¿' 27 book series as well as the 10 book Emotatude series to help children deal with feelings in concrete terms. Her recent book 'I Feel Magical When I Pretend' helps children explore the magic of pretending her artistic representations places a value on all our emotions. Her earlier works deal with a separate emotion such as fear, love, joy, grief, compassion, frustration, and anger.