  | Sometimes I cry Author: Townes, Jess | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
Sometimes it's the sting from a fall that brings tears to your eyes, but other times it's laughing so hard from a tickle fight that you start to cry. Follow a young boy as he explores the wide range of emotions that cause him to cry--from joy to disappointment, from laughter to pain, from love to grief.
| Illustrator: | Miyares, Daniel |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (07/15/23)
School Library Journal (+) (08/01/23)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (00/09/23)
Full Text Reviews:
School Library Journal - 08/01/2023 PreS-Gr 4—Childhood is full of emotional ups and downs, and in this beautifully illustrated story, readers follow a boy through a series of life events and the emotions they raise. These universal experiences and the tearful reactions they produce will resonate with readers of all ages. While crying is a natural human response, it is a challenging experience, especially for boys, due to cultural taboos in some communities. This title shows a young boy and his father wrestling and laughing so hard that tears come out. The young boy also cries with his grandfather as they remember Grandma. The illustrations, starting with the cover showing eight different tearful expressions of the boy, capture the range of emotions that can produce tears and offer readers an emotional vocabulary through which they can express their own tearful episodes. In one, it is the love he feels for his baby sister that makes him well up. In another instance, the narration explains that with the release of tears, his emotions can fit in him again. VERDICT Highly effective for communicating the appropriateness of tearful expressions, this title will be useful in social-emotional learning experiences for starting conversations about our human reactions to being alive.—John Scott - Copyright 2023 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
