Common Thread: Emotions

Sub-Category 1: Anger

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	When Sophie Gets Angry-- Really, Really Angry...	Molly Bang	Ages 4-8	March 1999/ Scholastic	When Sophie gets angry, her anger shows in a deep red on every page. Things aren't going her way. She runs away and her mood changes to the deep blues and greens of the trees and the ocean. She returns home and everything is all right again.
	I Was So Mad	Mercer Mayer	Ages 4-8	November 2000/ Golden Books	Little Critter is in such a plight. Everyone says he can't do anything. He can't keep frogs in the tub and he can't help paint the house.  He decides that he will run away, until his friends want him to come play baseball. He decides to run away another day, when he gets mad again.
	Touching Spirit Bear	Ben Mikalsen	Ages 9-12	April 2002/ Harper Trophy	Cole Matthew is a ninth grader on the verge of having is life transformed. He is angry and violent, a bully. He beats a classmate to the point of brain damage. Facing a jail sentence, an indian parole officer comes into his life and offers him a second chance at a camp called Circle Justice.
	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst	Ages 4-8	November 1987/ Aladdin Library	From the moment he woke up with gum in his hair, Alexander knew it wasn't going to be a good day. He is hit with all sorts of bad things, making his day grow worse and worse. This book reminds kids that things could always be "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad."
	Who the Man	Chris Lynch	Ages 9-12	December 2002/ Harper  Collins	Earl is bigger and thinks he is more mature than the other kids in his class. He doesn't hesitate to use violence to handle a conflict or get his way. Part of this mentality has been instilled my his father who says a man must have respect. In this book follow Earl through his change from boyhood to manhood.

Sub-Category 2: Love

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Guess How Much  I Love You	Sam McBratney	Ages 4-8	March 1995/ Candlewick Press	Little Nutbrown Hare shows Big Nutbrown Hare how much he loves him. He show him in how high he jumps and how wide he can spread his arms. He is ultimately out done by his big brother's show of love.
	Love You Forever	Sheila McGraw	Ages 4-8	April 1988/ Firefly Books	Even though her baby is a handful, his mother still loves him. As he grows up she still goes in his room at night and holds him and tells him how much she loves him and always will. When the boy grows into a man and has his own little girl, he instills the same love his mother had shown into his own little girl.
	Summer of My German Solider	Bette Green	Ages 9-12	January 2002/ Speak	Patty Bergen's world is shaken up when her small hometown in Arkansas is turned into a camp for German soldiers in World War II. A Jew, she soon learns one of the prisoners, a young man named Anton, has thoughts and feelings not unlike hers.  She befriends him and has to learn to take the consequences that come with that friendship.
	Mama, Do You Love Me?	Barbara M. Joosse	Ages 4-8	September 1998/ Chronicle Books	A daughter tries to find if there is a depth to her mother's love.
	I Love My Daddy Because...	Laurel Porter-Gaylord	Ages 4-6	May 1996/ Dutton Books	A daughter expresses the love for her father and the reasons why she loves him in this book. She compares her love to how animals love their babies.

Sub-Category 3: Silly

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods that Make My Day	Jaime Lee Curtis	Ages 4-8	September 1998/ Joana Cotler	In this 'silly' book. A little girl talks about how she feels silly and why she feels this way. She also describes other moods.
	Silly Sally	Audrey Wood	Ages 4-6	March 1999/ Red Wagon Books	"Silly Sally went to town, walking backwards upside down." Silly Sally has many adventures on her trip to town, walking all sorts of different ways.
	Listen Ear: And Other Stories to Shock You Silly	Paul Jennings	Ages 9-12	October 1999/ Bt. Bound	This is a collection of stories by Paul Jennings meant to make any person laugh silly.
	Shake My Sillies Out	Raffi	Ages 4-6	March 1990/ Crown Publishing Books	Follow a bear, a squirrel, and a rabbit through the woods at night as they shake their sillies out.
	Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night	Art Spiegelman	Ages 9-12	August 2003 Joana Cotler	This book has input given by some of the top names in children literature today.  Art Aimesworth is a boy crime fighter who fights evil daily. He is a whiz kid and is trying to find Giggle-illium, a silly atom.

Sub-Category 4: Sad

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	Ages 9-12	January 1999/ Scholastic	Billie Joe is a child of the dust bowl. In free verse, she tells you about the trials and tribulations of her life. Her mother's death and watching her father decay before he eyes makes her decide to flee and get out from under the dust.
	Beat the Turtle Drum	Constance C. Greene	Ages 9-12	March 1994/ Puffin	Kate and Joss are sisters who are very different. When Joss dies of Leukemia Kate realizes that she is stronger than she thought before.
	Cheer Up Sad Cat	Caroline Davias	Ages 4-6	December 2001/ Sterling	Sad Cat is so sad. What will make him happy? Several of his friends come and show him things that make them happy. Dog finds his ball. Bunny gets to eat.  What will make Sad Cat happy? This  book has tabs to pull and change cat's face.
	Its Not the End of the World	Judy Blume	Ages 9-12	September 1986/ Yearling Books	Karen Newman wants her parents to get along. She wants them to be able to be in the same room and not argue. Now her dad is moving to Las Vegas and her mother is happy. Karen has to get them back together in one final attempt.
	The Blue Day Book	Bradley Trevor Grieve	Ages 4-12	May 2000/ Andrews McMeel	A picture book of animals being the bluest of blue. This book will cheer anyone up.

Sub-Category 5: Scared

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Jenny is Scared	Carol Shuman	Ages 4-8	May 2003/ Magination	Jenny is scared. There are sad things happening in the world and she is not quite sure what to do. Watch her as she talks to her parents about how she feels.
	Scared Stiff	Wilo Davis Roberts	Ages 9-12	November 2001/ Aladdin Library	Rick Van Huler and his brother Kenny are living with their Uncle Henry. There mom has been kidnapped. Being sleuths they try to find their mother. They begin to investigate an old abandoned amusement park across the street from where they live. With the help of their new friends Julie and Connie, they find the person who took the boy's mother might be after them.
	What was I Scared of?	Dr. Seuss	Ages 4-8	July 1997/ Random House	A scary pair of pants, this is what the main character in this silly book is scared of. This is a funny book about being scared.
	Nathaniel Willy, Scared Silly	Judith Matthews and Fay Robinson	Ages 4-8	September 1999/ Aladdin Library	When Nathaniel Willy can't sleep, his 'Gramma' does everything she can to make him go to sleep.  A wise old woman is brought in to consult in the case and oils the hinges on the door, killing the squeak that scared Nathaniel Willy.
	Scared of a Bear	Hilda Offen	Ages 4-8	June 1999/ Hodder & Stoughton	Katie is all alone and very bored. No one will play with her. She goes to the woods and looks for adventure. While there she finds a baby bear and brings it home. She doesn't understand why no one will play with it.

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