Everybody gets angry sometimes. And for children, anger can be very upsetting and frightening. Ain this Caldecott Honor book, children will see what Sophie does when she gets angry. Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it. People do lots of different things when they get angry. What you do? --from the back cover of the book.
This is a book with attitude! Mij Kelly's original story, with it's colorful cast of characters, explores emotions familiar to children everywhere. The rhythmic text is great to read aloud and Ruth Palmer's evocative oil paintings have captured the melodrama perfectly.
Here's another inspired picture book from the best-selling author-illustrator team of Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth.
Good-bye isn't forever. It's for a little while. "Bye-Bye" means hugs, kisses, big maves, deep breaths...and time for play. Then, before long, it's time to say "Hello!"