Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry - Hardcover

Campbell, Bebe Moore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399239723 ISBN 13: 9780399239724

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile, 2003

Synopsis

A little girl, Annie, copes with her mother's mental illness, with the help of her grandmother and friends. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of bestselling adult novels including Brothers and Sisters and What You Owe Me, and won a NAACP Image Award for literature for Your Blues Ain't Like Mine.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-3-When Annie wakes up in the morning, her mother is making pancakes and cheerily asking, "Who wants hot, golden circles?" The woman proclaims the breakfast "yummalicious" and Annie's purple dress, "Beautastic." But when the little girl returns home from school, her mother greets her by shouting, "STOP ALL THAT SCREAMING-GET IN THIS HOUSE NOW!" An author's note explains that this is how life can be for a child living with a mentally ill parent. When Annie's mother gets upset, the girl knows that she should call her grandmother, who reassures her and reminds her that her mother loves her, even when she's yelling. The child has the option of going to a neighbor's house and waiting for her grandmother to come for her. In spite of these safety valves, she deals with the situation on her own-getting a snack, snuggling with her teddy bear, and going to bed. Annie realizes that she can't stop the dark clouds inside her mother, but that she can find sunshine in her own mind. Lewis makes excellent use of light and shadow in his watercolors, evoking both the sunny glow of a happy kitchen and the foreboding gloom of a dark porch with equal skill. The multicultural cast is depicted with realistic sensitivity. The author's goal is to offer children resilience by introducing coping strategies and helping them to understand that they are not to blame for their parents' difficulties. A skillful treatment of a troubling subject.
Anna DeWind Walls, Milwaukee Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0399239723
• ISBN 13: 9780399239724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Lewis E. B.