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61) Mr. Grumpy
Author
Series
Mr. Men series volume 27
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 13 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Curly's bad mood travels from person to person, unexpectedly leaving opportunities for forgiveness, laughter, and love in its wake.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 141 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither Haiku nor limmerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering new, profound meaning.
Author and resilience/well-being expert Lucy Hone, a pioneer in fusing positive psychology and bereavement research, was faced with...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and���if at all possible���destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver���s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards...
Author
Language
English
Description
The novel, published in 1974, uses a long motorcycle trip to frame a prolonged exploration of the world of ideas, about life and how best to live it. It references perspectives from Western and Eastern Civilizations as it explores the central question of the how to pursue technology so that human life is enriched rather than degraded. Narrated in the first person, it incorporates a parallel presentation of trip details and an ongoing retrospective...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : AVOID STUFF. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
69) Blue
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text celebrate the many shades of blue seen during the relationship of a boy and his dog as the boy grows from a baby to an adult.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First board book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Does Jim Panzee want to go for a walk? No! How about having a playdate? No! Not even to eat a banana? No! Grumpy Monkey just wants to say 'no.' Sometimes it seems like the only word toddlers know is 'no,' and Jim is no exception"--
71) Feeling afraid
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Blue Owl Books.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers will discover how to recognize fear in themselves and others, how to best respond to it, and how to communicate about these feelings. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This! and Grow with Goals activities at the end of the book further reinforce the content. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about emotions. Also...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A lovingly crafted picture book speaking to the child's perspective on divorce. The book offers advice, sympathy, and wit to match without being pandering or authoritative. While admitting that divorces are painful, it above all empowers its young reader to cope with and even make the best of a difficult situation"--
Author
Publisher
Rodale Kids
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her class go on a field trip, complete with a roller coaster, pie-eating contest, and petting zoo, in a book that helps young readers learn to express and articulate happiness.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This feel-good concept book follows three young children as they navigate the emotional highs and lows during a school day, inviting readers to share their own contradictory, unpredictable, always-there feelings.
75) How to be happy
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
145 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of literary comics exploring joy, anguish, fear, and loneliness.
77) Connection parenting: parenting through connection instead of coercion, through love instead of fear
Author
Publisher
Wyatt-MacKenzie Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
205 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Connection Parenting" is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children," that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool. Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to parenting that supports parents and caregivers in creating and maintaining the strong bonds children...
Series
Publisher
Child's Play (International) Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A calming book about feeling angry. Developed in conjunction with a child psychologist, these board books focus on the six main emotions experienced by very young children. Featuring non-gendered characters and avoiding stereotypical associations of color and emotion, each book introduces the child to the feelings raised by one emotion. Coping strategies are discussed where necessary. Written with both neurodivergent and neurotypical readers in mind....
79) Accident!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lola the armadillo accidentally knocks over a jug of juice all over her parent's favorite chair, her panic sets off a chain reaction that sends the whole town into chaos. While "sorry" still might be the hardest word, this silly and sincere book will help readers realize that making a mistake isn't a disaster.
80) Moody moody cars
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Classic cars express a range of feelings to teach younger children about facial expressions"--
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