This is an adorable and well-designed picture book on feelings — in particular, the overlapping diecut hearts are genius and have a tactile appeal.
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The Cloud by Hannah Cumming
A small dense mass of scribbles is cleverly used here to reflect a little girl’s dark mood — she literally and metaphorically has a cloud hanging over her head.
Eric, The Boy Who Lost His Gravity by Jenni Desmond
Life with siblings isn’t all cookies and cream, so to speak. After all, the flip side of anyone spending so much time together is that there’re bound to be instances of bickering, petty quarrels or fights, which is normal. What’s more important is not allowing whatever negative emotions that are riding high in that moment to linger long enough to cause any real damage. And this, essentially, is the gist of Eric, The Boy Who Lost His Gravity
Hooray for Hat! by Brian Won
Compared to the practical nature of clothes and shoes, hats are not widely worn for their utility. OK, some do serve a purpose, like hard hats, sun hats and beanies, but, by and large, it seems like there’s just something irrepressibly fun and attractive about hats that party suppliers have long ago cottoned-on to when they created novelty hats to help get people in a celebratory mood — or at least look the part.
Pete’s a Pizza by William Steig
Everyone has a unique hodgepodge of memories. The funny thing is, of the millions of little moments that we experience throughout our lives, only a very small percentage will be retained in our minds; and the thing is, we never really know which are the ones that will stick — that we can still recall clearly maybe 20 or 30 years down the road, even though they didn’t seem all that significant at that point of time. What we remember of childhood as an adult is thus all the more hazy, given that those form our very first memories. That said, if you are lucky enough to have parents who take pains to carve out extra-special moments in the midst of the everyday mundanities — the kind that you’ll be hard-pressed to forget — then it’s likely that you will have more fond memories of childhood than not. And judging from Pete’s a Pizza
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
Anyone who has had days where nothing seems to go right, will be able to sympathise with the protagonist of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
From the moment Alexander wakes up in the morning (with gum in his hair), everything that can go wrong, does. Although nothing really bad happens, we can empathise with him as a string of bad luck and an unfortunate chain of events conspire to make his day a miserable one. At one point, he even hilariously declares that he wants to “move to Australia”, although he clearly has no clue where it is or what is there.
Rain! by Linda Ashman and Christian Robinson
Rain!
No Fits, Nilson! by Zachariah OHora
No Fits, Nilson!
Everything is fine and dandy most of the time, except when Nilson throws the biggest fits over the tiniest things — something that many toddlers are apt to do.
Grumpy Gertie by Sam Lloyd
Gertie wakes up with a terrible case of the grumps and proceeds to be mean and grouchy to everyone she encounters. When the cheerful flowers, fishes and sun become as unhappy as her, she feels worse than ever.
The Feelings Book by Todd Parr
The Feelings Book
