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Grump Groan Growl
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From legendary author and critic bell hooks and multi-Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka comes a fresh look at bad moods, perfect for fans of Grumpy Monkey and The Pout Pout Fish.
Here's a positive way to face our bad, grumpy, and wild moods! Acclaimed writer bell hooks offers a vision of calm with a soothingly rhythmic text, while award-winning artist Chris Raschka's vibrant art adds a healthy dose of compassion and humor, reminding readers that sometimes you just have to go inside and let it slide.
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Bell Hooks. (2017). Grump Groan Growl. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

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Bell Hooks. 2017. Grump Groan Growl. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

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Bell Hooks. Grump Groan Growl. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017.

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      • bioText: A world-renowned cultural critic, feminist theorist, and intellectual, bell hooks is a distinguished author and professor of English. She has written several acclaimed children's books including Be Boy Buzz, Skin Again, and Happy to be Nappy, all illustrated by Chris Raschka.

        Chris Raschka is the Caldecott-Award-winning illustrator of The Hello Goodbye Window and A Ball for Daisy. He also received a Caldecott Honor for Yo! Yes? and has written and illustrated numerous books for children, including several titles by bell hooks: Happy to be Nappy, Skin Again, and Be Boy Buzz. A 2012 nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, he lives in New York City.
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From legendary author and critic bell hooks and multi-Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka comes a fresh look at bad moods, perfect for fans of Grumpy Monkey and The Pout Pout Fish.
Here's a positive way to face our bad, grumpy, and wild moods! Acclaimed writer bell hooks offers a vision of calm with a soothingly rhythmic text, while award-winning artist Chris Raschka's vibrant art adds a healthy dose of compassion and humor, reminding readers that sometimes you just have to go inside and let it slide.
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        Hooks and Raschka (Be Boy Buzz
        ; Skin Again
        ) charge this temperamental book with few words but ample emotion. The alliterative title alone demands a loud delivery, and each of the three key words gets a noisy spread all to itself (“Grump-/ Groan-/ Growl/ Bad mood on the prowl”). Raschka, working in loose India ink over airy, multicolored watercolor wash, scrawls a short-legged, leonine monster and its alter ego, an angry curly-haired child. The creature recalls one of Sendak's Wild Things, albeit roughly sketched with a thick brush. A zigzag blue line of teeth superimposed across the glowering monster's dark mouth in several images implies a temporary sharpness, but not permanent antagonism. Similarly, hooks's words acknowledge how hard it is to avoid negativity (“Can't stand outside/ Can't hide”). At the conclusion, the words “Just go inside,” recommend a time-out for easing out of the mood. On the closing page, “Just let it slide,” the S of “slide” becomes a chair where the once-belligerent child lounges and his inner monster naps beneath (not gone, but relaxed). With its intensity and understanding, this bad-mood book rivals Jules Feiffer's I'm Not Bobby!
        and Molly Bang's When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry...
        . Ages 3-up.

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        PreS-Gr 2-Expressionistic art and economical poetry combine smoothly to create an inspiring model of self-control. A young gender-neutral child with curly hair is in a BAD MOOD. An alter-ego beast grumps, groans, and growls, trying in vain to hide or escape from its own feelings. Only when the child/beast faces and accepts the feelings can the bad mood dissipate. It is significant that the temperamental beast is not portrayed as something bad to be defeated; as the child makes a conscious effort to chill, the bad-mood beast is calmed and, in the final scene, sleeps companionably by the child's side. Many "anger management" picture books advise letting it all out by running or screaming. This one is different; "Just go inside/Just let it slide," it says, modeling a more internal form of comfort. It's a kind of variation on "Where the Wild Things Are"Max imagined temporarily becoming a Wild Thing, while this child embraces the constant beast within and calms it through love and acceptance. Thick, almost tactile lines of paint are slathered onto the pages with gusto, capturing a feeling of movement and strong emotion. Hand-painted lettering is incorporated into the illustrations so that words and images interact, as in the final "let it slide" where the S becomes a seat for the relaxed child. While abstract and symbolic, this book has a healthful and hopeful message that readers will connect with emotionally."Heidi Estrin, Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel, Boca Raton, FL"

        Copyright 2008 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        February 1, 2008
        Like Sendaksclassic Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the latest collaboration between hooks and Raschka acknowledges the ferocity of childhood emotions and suggests the wisdom of allowing them to run their course. Here, however, the emotions themselves, anthropomorphized (in true Sendakian spirit) as a wild beast, take center stage rather than being digestedwithin alarger imaginary narrative.The beginning is memorable: hooks stompingrefrain, Grump / Groan / Growl/ Bad mood on the prowl, sprawls across the spreads in thickly brushed, freehand letters as the creature, caged within a thick, black frame, paces and roars. Unfortunately, Raschkas watercolors, although they nicely express the volatile, muddy soup of an irritable childs subconscious, dont doenough to elucidate the texts concluding, therapeutic ideasabout taming the bad-mood beast(just go inside, hookssuggests, but inside where?). Still, even if the books message is sometimes too obscure, fewpicture bookscan match the visceral punch of this ones opening, which does for bad moods what Sendaks wild rumpus sequence did for bedtime naughtiness.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)

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        July 1, 2008
        Bold, expressionistic watercolors capture the misery of a child overtaken by negative emotions. The "bad mood" is depicted as a monster that eventually dissolves into a swirl of colors when the child is able to "just let those feelings be / just let them pass." Raschka's visualization of anger and frustration, all thick black outlines and inchoate shapes, is extremely effective.

        (Copyright 2008 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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Here's a positive way to face our bad, grumpy, and wild moods! Acclaimed writer bell hooks offers a vision of calm with a soothingly rhythmic text, while award-winning artist Chris Raschka's vibrant art adds a healthy dose of compassion and humor, reminding readers that sometimes you just have to go inside and let it slide.
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