Books like Grumpy Monkey

Same bad-mood-for-no-reason honesty, but Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst stacks up a whole day of small disasters instead of just one.

The Good Egg by Jory John is less about one bad mood and more about the exhaustion of always trying to be good.

Same funny-but-true feel, except The Bad Seed by Jory John explains how a seed got so bad before it starts to change.

Skip the feelings talk entirely. The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith just piles on silly words until everyone's giggling too hard to sit still.

Less about big feelings, more about a small creature just trying to find where he belongs. Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman is gentler, still funny.

Reach for Zog by Julia Donaldson when your kid wants a clumsy hero to root for instead of a grumpy one to understand.

A pout instead of a grump, but the shape is familiar. The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen rhymes its way toward the same kind of turnaround.

If the first batch of complaining crayons was a hit, The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt brings back the same joke with a rescue mission attached.

Instead of one grumpy character, The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt gives you a whole box of them, each complaining in their own letter.

This one turns the tantrum into an actual journey. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak lets the anger get loud and strange before anyone comes home.

No grumpy chimp here, no bad mood to work through. The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin is pure wondering about who your kid might grow up to be.

Same short funny read, but the big feeling is fear instead of anger. Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds turns a rabbit's paranoia into the joke.