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mdevlin923's review against another edition
3.0
Sophie is happily playing with her toys when her younger sister steals the gorilla. Sophis is angry...really, really angry. But she knows how to calm herself down: take a walk through nature, climb a tree, and look out over the water. When Sophie returns to her home, she is calm and ready to engage with her family once more.
Bold illustrations, and an example of children self-soothing.
Bold illustrations, and an example of children self-soothing.
roseleaf24's review against another edition
The illustrations do an amazing job of showing the emotion, and the change in Sophie. I think this book could be helpful for my girl, who gets angry this way, but it makes me glad we'll be moving somewhere with a walking path on our side of the street.
ir_sharp2's review against another edition
2.0
I actually DON'T love this one. It teaches kids to run away, and that's not cool.
annabannana's review against another edition
Project Cornerstone Champion Year 3 Book 4
This book might have worked in another time, another place. It's not so good when "free-range parenting" is under attack and people live on busy streets in suburbs and cities...
Not going to read this to my kid - I have no intention of introducing the idea of running away from home and family as an appropriate response to feeling angry.
I could have safely done as the book suggests when I was a kid. My child can not do the same, I'm afraid.
Update: This is a Project Cornerstone book, so I guess my son will read it whether I want him to or not. But... at least he'll be several years older by then, and the idea of running away from home will no longer be a novel idea, and my son will not be as impulsive since he will no longer be a pre-schooler.
This book might have worked in another time, another place. It's not so good when "free-range parenting" is under attack and people live on busy streets in suburbs and cities...
Not going to read this to my kid - I have no intention of introducing the idea of running away from home and family as an appropriate response to feeling angry.
I could have safely done as the book suggests when I was a kid. My child can not do the same, I'm afraid.
Update: This is a Project Cornerstone book, so I guess my son will read it whether I want him to or not. But... at least he'll be several years older by then, and the idea of running away from home will no longer be a novel idea, and my son will not be as impulsive since he will no longer be a pre-schooler.
tiffanis29's review against another edition
Great illustration. I did not care for one part of the story. I would not share this book with a child. In these days (2016) it is not acceptable for a child to exit a dwelling running and angry. The child in this story ran to what seemed to be a wooded area. Perhaps a revision with an ending appropriate and realistic for the current time.
sducharme's review against another edition
5.0
I love everything about this picture book: the way it captures the rage a toddler can feel when things don't go right, the thick rich swirls of oil paint in hot angry colors and then cool calming tones, the focus on the natural world as a place to feel held and get healed.
tracie_nicole's review against another edition
3.0
The art is bright and the text is engaging for little ones. However, it is really unsafe for a little kid to just run off to the woods all by herself wo telling anyone.
erinmp's review against another edition
3.0
Great illustrations--vivid and very colorful. Good message about appropriately dealing with anger.
librariandest's review against another edition
3.0
I live with a little girl named Sophie, so we've read this book a bunch of times.