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A review by woodsbookclub
If You Cry Like a Fountain by Noemi Vola
4.0
In If You Cry like a Fountain, the author and illustrator Noemi Vola highlights the practical benefits of crying with quirky and surprisingly fun examples, like crying around lunchtime so we can use our salty tears to boil pasta. Yeah, you can laugh? I did too! And, as a big crier myself (for real, I even have a t-shirt saying 'I'm pretty cool, but I cry a lot'), I found this picture book for early readers genuinely delightful.
The book begins with a sad and tearful worm and an unseen narrator, who shares various ways to 'cry better'. The ideas are sometimes silly but always creative, and I smiled a lot while reading. The colourful illustrations are full of humour and greatly enrich the message. Everyone cries, and that's okay.
The book will be a good-hearted resource for discussing feelings and emotions and help develop young kids' emotional self-regulation. And I do know it would have to help me when I was a kid. The only downside is that it's too short. The story could be better told with a few more pages. For example, in the beginning, I felt like crying wasn't okay, in the 'keep your chin up' way, which seems dissonant with the themes of the rest of the book. Besides that, I would love it if, in the future, there's a Portuguese version so I can buy that for my younger cousins and goddaughter.
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
The book begins with a sad and tearful worm and an unseen narrator, who shares various ways to 'cry better'. The ideas are sometimes silly but always creative, and I smiled a lot while reading. The colourful illustrations are full of humour and greatly enrich the message. Everyone cries, and that's okay.
The book will be a good-hearted resource for discussing feelings and emotions and help develop young kids' emotional self-regulation. And I do know it would have to help me when I was a kid. The only downside is that it's too short. The story could be better told with a few more pages. For example, in the beginning, I felt like crying wasn't okay, in the 'keep your chin up' way, which seems dissonant with the themes of the rest of the book. Besides that, I would love it if, in the future, there's a Portuguese version so I can buy that for my younger cousins and goddaughter.
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.