Bad day
Having left home because of a particularly bad day, a runaway finds that going "away" is perhaps not the best solution.
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From Publishers Weekly:
The opening page of this droll book says it all: "Hate this day." Nothing is going right for this little boy, who does not mince words. (Indeed, almost no page contains more than five words.) He also hates his toys, the food served at dinner, his big brother, his little brother and his dad. When his distraught mother screams "Go away!," he decides to do just that--packing his suitcase, strapping on a pair of wings and taking off into the sky. "Is this away?" he asks a fish and a bird, but neither gives him a satisfactory answer. He next encounters an owl, who tells him that "away" is not a place, it is a feeling--"a lonely feeling." When the owl asks the boy if he loves anyone, he realizes that he does, and flies home. Demeyer's cartoonlike drawings add just the right amount of humor to Couzyn's simple yet uplifting story, which will help children and their parents deal with those inevitable bad days. Ages 4-6.
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A small boy tersely expresses his discontent with his world and runs away ("Hate this day. Hate these toys. Hate this food."), while comic illustrations show his antisocial behavior. When he discovers that being away is lonely, and when a wise owl points out to him that there are other feelings, like--you guessed it--love, he returns home where peace and harmony now reign. The book works well, the text amplified by funny watercolors. While not as substantial as Viorst's classic "Alexander" books (Atheneum), Bad Day is directed to younger children and has a charm of its own. It's likely to be favored both by small children who know what it feels like to have a bad day and by their parents, who will welcome the upbeat ending. --Ann Stell, The Smithtown Library, NY
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherTrumpet Club
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0440843413
- ISBN 13 9780440843412
- BindingUnknown Binding
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