How are they going to “fix selves” on time? Soon a hippopotamus and peacock are staring bug-eyed at a returning pair of astonished hands. But the sound of approaching footsteps panics the pair of Picassos. After all, the opportunity to become a “pig-e-phant” doesn’t come around every day.

An ear pulled here and an extra eye placed there, and before you can shake a carving stick, a spurt of frenetic self-exploration-expressed as a tangled black scribble-reveals a succession of smug hybrid beasts. The owl is pleased, but the wolf convinces it that the best is yet to come. The hands disappear, leaving the friends to their own devices. A pair of hands descends, and soon, amid a flurry of squishing and prodding and poking and sculpting, a handsome gray wolf and a stately brown owl emerge. The gray anticipates an adventure, while the brown appears apprehensive. Reinvention is the name of the game for two blobs of clay.Ī blue-eyed gray blob and a brown-eyed brown blob sit side by side, unsure as to what’s going to happen next. In the simple, childlike illustrations, which are made from pieces of cut-and often previously used-paper and scribbled crayons, even the flat figures look 3-D. “What could it be?” puzzles the girl…but opening the final spread reveals the smiling monster radiating scribbly pink hearts, and viewers will have no trouble figuring it out. There’s one feeling that is not accounted for, though. Each emotion is linked to a color: happiness is yellow sadness, “gentle and blue like a rainy day” anger, a violent splash of red calm “is as light as a green leaf / floating in the wind.” One spread-filling pop-up is devoted to each emotion/color, from clouds with lines of string “rain” to a hammock strung between leafy trees all the now-full jars regather toward the end with pull-tabs to reveal their contents. encourages young ones to open up and discuss how they feel, even when their thoughts are confusing.' ?Parents We teach toddlers to identify colors, numbers, shapes, and letters?but what about their feelings? By illustrating such common emotions as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and calm, this sensitive book gently encourages young children to open up with parents, teachers, and daycare providers.A child helps a mixed-up monster sort out its feelings in this inventive pop-up import from Spain.Ĭompartmentalization is the child’s strategy, as she urges the googly-eyed monster to pour its feelings into individual glass jars.

And kids will LOVE the bright illustrations and amazing 3-D pop-ups on every page!

encourages young ones to open up and discuss how they feel, even when their thoughts are confusing.' ?Parents We teach toddlers to identify colors, numbers, shapes, and letters?but what about their feelings? By illustrating such common emotions as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and calm, this sensitive book gently encourages young children to open up with parents, teachers, and daycare providers.

Anna llenas the colour monster