Books like A Little Emotional
By Christopher Eliopoulos
For the kid whose small frustrations can snowball into big feelings fast, this book puts a face on the storm and makes it something to talk about instead of just weather through. funny, energetic, a little chaotic, ultimately reassuring
An overachieving egg tries to be perfect while the other eleven eggs in his carton behave badly, until the pressure literally starts to crack him and he decides something has to change.
A chimpanzee named Jim wakes up in a bad mood on a beautiful day, and his well-meaning friends keep insisting he shouldn't feel that way at all.
A boy wakes up with gum in his hair and just knows it's going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day — and from breakfast to bedtime, he's right.
A grumpy seed with a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude who cuts in line and stares at everybody decides he's tired of being bad — and wonders if he can change.
A mouse named Chester has one way of doing everything, and his best friend Wilson happily matches him move for move — until a bold new neighbor named Lilly moves in with her own way of doing things entirely.
A bird wakes up too grumpy to fly, eat, or play, so he stomps off on a walk instead — and one by one, Sheep, Rabbit, Raccoon, Beaver, and Fox tag along.
A visitor-hating bear puts up a no-visitors sign and orders a mouse out of his house, but the mouse keeps turning up in the most unexpected places anyway.
A toddler who usually likes peaches suddenly likes nothing at all, and the whole house braces for the earth-quaking, ground-shaking fit that's coming.
A beloved dinosaur bakes cookies, helps old ladies cross the street, and plays with kids in town — while one boy, Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie, insists she's scientifically extinct and shouldn't exist at all.
A bacon-loving cowboy and a knock-knock-joke-loving octopus strike up an odd-couple friendship, told through a handful of short, funny stories about their mismatched tastes and habits.
A girl named Mei Mei breaks her ama's favorite cup and, terrified of the consequences, lets the family cat take the blame — until the guilt becomes impossible to bear.
A young bear named Lucy finds a boy in the woods and, against her mother's warning that children make terrible pets, brings him home to keep as her very own — naming him Squeaker.
