Age: Preschool-Kindergarten
Family: Older sister, new baby
Emotions: Mad, sad, happy, overwhelmed, jealous

A little girl describes her range of emotions from happy to mad to sad. The reader/listener sees that most of her negative emotions come from the new baby in the house. On those mad sad noisy days, the little girl uses her imagination to escape into a rain forest of her own creation, visualizing her large and daunting problems as trees and mountains and overcoming them.

Two-Four sentences per page make this an excellent read-aloud but readers will want to pause and discuss some of the pictures to fully understand the character's reasoning behind her emotions. Non-computer generated artwork (watercolor) help diversify your read-aloud collection.