Some Days

By Karen Kaufman Orloff, Ziyue Chen (Illustrator)

Explore a child's journey through a year of changing emotions.

4.0/7 Bookroo expert·4.0/5 Goodreads · 161 ratings

40 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Join a young boy and girl as they navigate a year filled with emotions, from joy to loneliness. Through rhymes and relatable moments, they learn to embrace and understand their feelings. Discover how they cope with both the highs of 'kites up in the sky days' and the lows of 'need my mommy now days.' This delightful journey offers children a way to recognize and manage their own emotional experiences.

From the publisher

“Some days are chocolate pudding pie days. Kites up in the sky days. Jumping super high days.” This rhyming picture book–from the author of the bestselling I Wanna Iguana series and Miles of Smiles–is a moving, powerful, delightful exploration of a child’s shifting feelings. Come along and follow a year in the life of a young boy and girl as they discover their many different and ever-changing emotions, including joy, fear, anger, jealousy, excitement, pride, disappointment, loneliness, and contentment. As children read about “angels in the snow days” as well as “need my mommy now days,” they’ll begin to understand how to cope with both positive and negative feelings.

At a glance

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Reading age: 4–8
Audience: Picture
Lexile: 240L

Themes & topics

Books about feelings and emotions Books about self-discovery Books about nature Books about social themes Books about emotions

What readers & critics say

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4.0

“There's a whole rollercoaster of emotions over lots of different kinds of days, and this book takes you on a little trip through them all. The alternating of "bad" and "good" types of days (even though they never categorize them as that, which is awesome!) mimics the ebb and flow of real-life, and hints at all sorts of coping mechanisms. Is everyday perfect? No, but the balance is pretty great. The illustraions are super cute, as is the rhyming, and this one is fun and age-appropriate.”

Marmee

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