Cranky Right Now
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Sometimes we’re all cranky, and that’s okay! Cranky Right Now shows kids how to deal with those cranky days.
Cranky Right Now brings a much-needed message to kids: sometimes we’re all cranky. Maybe we’re tired, we’re hungry, or we’re just feeling grumpy. Dealing with emotions can be hard. Cranky Right Now is a fun and funny ride through the ups and downs of being cranky, helping kids process difficult feelings, frustrating relationships, and things that just make them mad.
Award-winning author Julie Berry talks about reasons kids can feel cranky and how to recognize those feelings and acknowledge them. She then gives simple practices for moving through crankiness. She shows that it’s okay to be in a bad mood sometimes—just not to take it out on others—and that cranky days will eventually give way to happy ones.
A companion volume to Happy Right Now, with Holly Hatam’s bright and playful illustrations, Cranky Right Now helps you embrace, understand, and move through cranky in a whole new way.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This companion to the collaborators' Happy Right Now marks the return of their narrator, a child with brown skin. An opening scene finds the child beneath a blanket fort, warning a guardian with an Afro: "I'm cranky right now, and I have my reasons." A comprehensive enumeration of wrongs and slights follows, from younger brother annoyances to parental hypocrisy when it comes to snacking; many of the scenes are anchored by the presence of a calm, slightly bemused guardian. Readers will savor the child's assertion: "You'd be cranky, too, if you lived with this much injustice." Hatam boosts the gentle comedy with mixed media, cartoon-style illustrations. The book's ultimate message—moods pass—is familiar, but there's an amusing twist when, after a restorative nap, Berry's charming text breaks into rhyme: "If you're cranky, I get it," the child magnanimously tells her once-scorned little brother. "Use my blankie, don't sweat it." Ages 4–8.
