Feeling Boo
A Picture Book
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- $169.00
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- $169.00
Descripción editorial
Authors and Tony Award-winning producers Alex Boniello and April Lavalle perfectly balance sweet and spooky in Feeling Boo, a charming and supportive picture book that reminds readers it’s ok to feel a little boo, especially if you have friends to help you through
It’s OK to feel a little bit BOO, especially if you have friends to help you through.
Ollie and Ellie have been friends for hundreds of years. They love taking long midnight floats through the graveyard, going on haunting sprees, and playing dress-up. But when Ollie wakes up feeling boo, Ellie isn’t quite sure what to do. She tries everything she can think of to cheer Ollie up, but nothing seems to do the trick. Finally, Ellie learns that just being present with her friend is all he really needs.
Told with equal parts humor and heart, this picture book is a kid-friendly, not-so-scary conversation-starter about mental health and the joy of friendship.
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Boniello and Lavalle offer an emotionally attuned portrait of how to support a melancholic friend in this pun-filled picture book. When ghost Ollie starts "feeling a bit boo," fellow spirit and longtime bestie Ellie does everything she can to cheer him: a "specter-tacular night" of activities includes a moonlight serenade with some friends in the graveyard, playing music on an old Victrola, and attempting to frighten passersby. Even after Ellie is left "half dead from the night's activities," Ollie's sadness persists. The well-intentioned friend continues to offer suggestions until at last Ollie gets her attention long enough to entreat, "I don't think we can outrun these boos.... What if we tried just... sitting here for a bit?" The quietly gladdening result points to the many forms care and support can take. Ages 4–8.
