Picture book 17

Title: When Sophie Gets Angry- Really Really Angry

Author: Molly Bang
Illustrator:
Genre: Children's literature/ picture book
Subgenre:Self-control
Theme: controlling your temper
Primary and Secondary characters: Sophie secondary: her sister
Awards, date of publication: 2004
Publishing company: Scholastic

 Breif summary and how you would use this books with your students: This book tells the story of a little girl named Sophie who gets mad very easily. Sophie is playing with her stuffed gorilla when her sister wrests it from her, knocking her to the floor. When their mother agrees that it is her sister's turn to play with the toy, Sophie becomes so angry. She ends up running into the woods until she cannot run anymore. She then sits down because she is out of breath. She sees how beautiful the scenery is and is no longer mad. She then goes back home happy and is not mad anymore. This would teach the kids to not get angry so much and realize how beautiful things around them are. It teaches them about sharing and how they cannot always get their way in life.