WEBVTT 00:00:21.250 --> 00:00:24.890 Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. 00:00:25.210 --> 00:00:28.289 And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast 00:00:28.289 --> 00:00:31.609 where we discuss books, give makerspace ideas, 00:00:31.809 --> 00:00:35.570 and give tips or tricks for working with our 00:00:35.570 --> 00:00:39.109 youngest learners in the library setting. This 00:00:39.109 --> 00:00:43.250 week we have two books about emotions. As the 00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:47.310 school year starts, our students often have some 00:00:47.310 --> 00:00:49.729 big emotions. They have some big feelings about 00:00:49.729 --> 00:00:52.049 the beginning of the school year. And to be fair, 00:00:52.630 --> 00:00:56.130 a lot of us educators do too. So we decided that 00:00:56.130 --> 00:00:58.969 we would read, we would discuss some books about 00:00:58.969 --> 00:01:02.170 emotions. And so we have two excellent books 00:01:02.170 --> 00:01:05.629 to share today. The first of which is called 00:01:05.629 --> 00:01:11.290 The Boy with Big, Big Feelings. This book is 00:01:11.290 --> 00:01:14.390 published by Beaming Books in 2019. The author 00:01:14.390 --> 00:01:18.650 is Brittany Nguyen Le and the illustrator is 00:01:18.650 --> 00:01:24.230 Jacob Suva. This book is not on any lists or 00:01:24.230 --> 00:01:26.250 won any awards, but it's still a really good 00:01:26.250 --> 00:01:29.829 book. And so we'll discuss our author a little 00:01:29.829 --> 00:01:34.230 bit. Brittany Wyn Lee is an author, editor, and 00:01:34.230 --> 00:01:37.269 a United Methodist pastor living in Louisiana 00:01:37.269 --> 00:01:40.530 with her husband and son. She has a master's 00:01:40.530 --> 00:01:44.810 degree in nonprofit administration and holds 00:01:44.810 --> 00:01:50.359 a local pastor licensure. And she has worked 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:54.760 for over a decade in faith and justice based 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:58.700 creative community building. Some of her other 00:01:58.700 --> 00:02:02.780 books, she actually these big, big books are 00:02:02.780 --> 00:02:05.719 part of a series. So she's also done the kid 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:09.500 with big, big ideas and the girl with big, big 00:02:09.500 --> 00:02:12.039 questions, both of which were illustrated by 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:16.020 Jacob Suva. And she's also done good night body. 00:02:16.430 --> 00:02:20.009 Finding Calm from Head to Toe, which is illustrated 00:02:20.009 --> 00:02:28.430 by Borghild Fahlberg. Well done. The illustrator, 00:02:28.550 --> 00:02:31.389 Jacob Suva, is an illustrator of picture books 00:02:31.389 --> 00:02:34.169 living in upstate New York with his family of 00:02:34.169 --> 00:02:37.330 two sons, one dog named Ruby, one cat with a 00:02:37.330 --> 00:02:40.270 sneezing problem, and one turtle named Michelangelo. 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.219 He used to think his imagination and creativity 00:02:43.219 --> 00:02:46.120 was a curse, but now he sees them as the bits 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:51.620 that make up great stories. He has illustrated 00:02:51.620 --> 00:02:55.580 a lot of other books, such as Butterflies Are 00:02:55.580 --> 00:03:00.219 Pretty, Gross, by Rosemary Mosco, Where Does 00:03:00.219 --> 00:03:05.740 a Pirate Go Potty? by Don Bab, oh dear, Proko, 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.849 Prachovet, Prachovet? I don't know. Yes, that 00:03:08.849 --> 00:03:16.409 one. Yes. Hide and seek ladybugs by Paul Bright. 00:03:17.129 --> 00:03:21.650 Why is for Yet? A Growth Mindset Alphabet by 00:03:21.650 --> 00:03:26.789 Shannon Anderson, Pedro's Pan, A Gold Rush Story 00:03:26.789 --> 00:03:31.889 by Matthew Laisley, and Flowers Are Pretty Weird 00:03:31.889 --> 00:03:38.069 by Rosemary Mosco. Yeah. And so this book is 00:03:38.069 --> 00:03:42.490 the story of a boy that has very strong and powerful 00:03:42.490 --> 00:03:45.229 emotions, but he feels that he needs to hide 00:03:45.229 --> 00:03:47.409 them because he feels like he's probably the 00:03:47.409 --> 00:03:50.370 only one with these big feelings. When he meets 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:53.650 a girl who also has these big emotions, they 00:03:53.650 --> 00:03:55.969 become friends and realize that everyone has 00:03:55.969 --> 00:03:58.669 big emotions and that everyone should feel comfortable 00:03:58.669 --> 00:04:02.270 with those emotions. And so this is just a really 00:04:02.569 --> 00:04:06.370 positive book. It's got this wonderful message. 00:04:07.409 --> 00:04:10.509 There's a rhyme scheme to it which I enjoy because 00:04:10.509 --> 00:04:13.289 I think that kind of keeps students' attention 00:04:13.289 --> 00:04:15.729 a little bit more because there's the rhymes 00:04:15.729 --> 00:04:18.230 and so there's a little bit of predictability 00:04:18.230 --> 00:04:21.709 and guessing of what's coming next. The illustrations 00:04:21.709 --> 00:04:24.750 are wonderful. I really love the illustrations 00:04:24.750 --> 00:04:30.610 because the pictures and the colors do a great 00:04:30.610 --> 00:04:33.350 job of showing how the character is feeling. 00:04:34.850 --> 00:04:38.509 And I think this is a really important message 00:04:38.509 --> 00:04:42.649 for our young students that your emotions, your 00:04:42.649 --> 00:04:47.610 feelings are valid and they're okay to have and 00:04:47.610 --> 00:04:51.509 it's okay to show your emotions. I mean, sometimes 00:04:51.509 --> 00:04:53.370 we're going to need to regulate those emotions, 00:04:53.689 --> 00:04:57.449 but it's okay to feel like that and it's okay 00:04:57.449 --> 00:05:02.500 to to be emotional and to understand that everybody 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:05.920 feels those emotions. It's important to understand 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.980 that it's not just you feeling that way. Everybody 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:12.300 has those feelings and they're valid. So it's 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:15.800 a really sweet story. Like I said, I think the 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.720 illustrations are just so cool. I love the use 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:24.040 of color to show the feelings, which I think 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.439 that's just... you could go through and just 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.560 look at the book and just look at the kind of 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:33.079 colors and do a lot of analysis on the way the 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.420 colors are used to show how the character feels 00:05:36.420 --> 00:05:38.600 in different situations, which is really cool. 00:05:39.339 --> 00:05:41.160 So I would definitely give this book a five out 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.680 of five. I think it's excellent. And like I said, 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.100 really important message for our pre -K students, 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:53.500 because they are just balls of emotion. This 00:05:53.500 --> 00:05:55.060 is something that I think they can all relate 00:05:55.060 --> 00:05:59.579 to. And so, yeah. Wonderful book. I agree. I 00:05:59.579 --> 00:06:01.699 hadn't read this book before you suggested it, 00:06:01.699 --> 00:06:04.360 but it's really, like you said, it has an incredibly 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.819 important message. Our pre -K kids in general 00:06:07.819 --> 00:06:12.160 are always a big ball of emotions, like all the 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.959 time. Emotional regulation is a thing. It's a 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.480 thing for adults. There's grownups that go... 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:19.399 Absolutely. There's a reason why there's anger 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:22.779 management therapists and such. Yeah, everyone 00:06:22.779 --> 00:06:25.579 feels the feelings. And it's really just what 00:06:25.579 --> 00:06:28.199 you do with the feelings and how to regulate 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.040 it that matters. And it's important for I think 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.160 there's a lot of kids that they they get very 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.319 confused because they think that it's not okay 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:42.560 to feel sad and to cry. And they think it's not 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:47.019 okay to be angry because they associate being 00:06:47.019 --> 00:06:49.660 angry with yelling and screaming or kicking or 00:06:49.660 --> 00:06:52.279 something like that and they kind of get confused 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:56.980 because it's not the feeling that's getting you 00:06:56.980 --> 00:07:02.100 in trouble. It's your actions and like it's important 00:07:02.100 --> 00:07:05.980 to teach those skills. That's a big piece that's 00:07:05.980 --> 00:07:09.300 missing from a lot of our little ones lives in 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:15.079 general is that emotional regulation. In general, 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.500 so if we can kind of teach them that it's okay 00:07:17.500 --> 00:07:21.620 to feel the things and This is how you manage 00:07:21.620 --> 00:07:24.439 the things and it's it is a lifelong thing and 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.019 even grown -ups have trouble regulating their 00:07:27.019 --> 00:07:30.720 emotions sometimes and you know Don't worry about 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.939 it. We'll get there. We'll work on it together. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.639 And these are some of the strategies you can 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.040 try it's it's Incredibly important because if 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.699 you don't figure out that emotional regulation 00:07:41.699 --> 00:07:44.500 piece in your classroom early on in the school 00:07:44.500 --> 00:07:48.899 year, like you will not accomplish anything meaningful 00:07:48.899 --> 00:07:53.339 for the kids. Like that's the kind of an incredibly 00:07:53.339 --> 00:07:57.139 crucial part of that, their foundation for their 00:07:57.139 --> 00:08:00.279 lives in general. And especially when they're 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.339 starting school and they're emotional anyway 00:08:02.339 --> 00:08:05.139 because they're in a brand new environment. Some 00:08:05.139 --> 00:08:08.160 of them have never left home before. It's scary. 00:08:08.259 --> 00:08:10.439 They've never been away from their grownups. 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:14.199 Some of them have, but the majority have not. 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.939 And this is, they think they might be left at 00:08:16.939 --> 00:08:18.480 school forever. They don't know what's going 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.279 on. This is where they're just, their people 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.540 are gone. So they're extra emotional anyway. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.439 So this is a great time to talk about it at the 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.540 beginning of the year. And it's, it's just really 00:08:30.540 --> 00:08:33.519 important for them to learn that it's not their 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:37.580 emotions that are, you know, the problem. It's 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:39.799 how they, it's just learning how to deal with 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:45.820 the emotions. Absolutely. Yeah. So definitely 00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:50.299 five out of five for me, I say. Absolutely. Yeah. 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.139 And so if we're going to use this as a, to incorporate 00:08:55.139 --> 00:08:58.279 a makerspace activity, Honestly, for this one, 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.220 the illustrations inspired me. I think that what 00:09:02.220 --> 00:09:04.700 I would like to do with this book and with my 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:09.299 students is to get some white paper and fold 00:09:09.299 --> 00:09:12.039 it into four so that you have like four rectangles 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.519 to work with. And you'll probably, honestly, 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:16.080 especially if you do this near the beginning 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.259 of the school year, you're gonna have to pre 00:09:18.259 --> 00:09:20.559 -fold those pages so they're ready to go for 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.059 the kids. And that's fine. But I would give them 00:09:24.059 --> 00:09:27.740 some that. paper folded into four squares or 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:31.980 four rectangles and some crayons and Let the 00:09:31.980 --> 00:09:36.379 kids draw themselves showing different emotions 00:09:36.379 --> 00:09:40.019 in each of those boxes like What like and maybe 00:09:40.019 --> 00:09:42.980 if you could show them if they could show themselves 00:09:42.980 --> 00:09:46.639 Like why they feel that way like what makes them 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.019 feel happy what makes them feel sad what makes 00:09:49.019 --> 00:09:51.620 them feel angry What makes them feel nervous 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:54.669 or afraid kind of thing? Like I think that would 00:09:54.669 --> 00:09:57.730 be a really cool thing. And if you could, if 00:09:57.730 --> 00:09:59.470 you're at the point, like if you don't do this 00:09:59.470 --> 00:10:01.090 near the necessarily at the very beginning of 00:10:01.090 --> 00:10:02.789 the year, but if you could have the conversation 00:10:02.789 --> 00:10:05.889 about like the way the artist uses colors to 00:10:05.889 --> 00:10:08.490 show certain emotions and that kind of thing, 00:10:08.789 --> 00:10:11.070 the kids might be able to use some of those colors 00:10:11.070 --> 00:10:15.649 to help express themselves. So like red might 00:10:15.649 --> 00:10:19.110 be more like the angry feeling where blue is 00:10:19.110 --> 00:10:20.970 going to be more of the sad feeling and that 00:10:20.970 --> 00:10:26.350 kind of thing. And I think that it would be a 00:10:26.350 --> 00:10:31.190 really cool way to let the kids express some 00:10:31.190 --> 00:10:34.789 of their feelings and be creative. And I think 00:10:34.789 --> 00:10:36.730 it would be a really cool way you get to know 00:10:36.730 --> 00:10:39.850 the kids. You get to learn a lot about the kids 00:10:39.850 --> 00:10:42.230 from what they show you in those images and those 00:10:42.230 --> 00:10:45.629 pictures, which would be really just kind of 00:10:45.629 --> 00:10:47.629 enlightening, I think. So I think it would be 00:10:47.629 --> 00:10:51.820 a fun thing to try out. Yeah. I like it, and 00:10:51.820 --> 00:10:55.360 I like that it's drawing different kinds of feelings 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:59.159 too, so they're not getting stuck on one. I like 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.860 that. It makes them think about how they would 00:11:01.860 --> 00:11:05.779 feel in different situations. And you might even, 00:11:06.259 --> 00:11:08.220 like, you could even, like, before you gave them 00:11:08.220 --> 00:11:10.340 the paper, you got, you could, like, as a group 00:11:10.340 --> 00:11:12.720 brainstorm a lot of different feelings and then 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.480 have to pick. what for they want to do that way 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:17.559 they can't just be like well i can't think of 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:19.379 what makes me afraid okay well then pick a different 00:11:19.379 --> 00:11:23.759 feeling like you know yeah like for sure yeah 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.639 yeah i like it makes them kind of think about 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:34.299 a lot of different feelings it's great yeah all 00:11:34.299 --> 00:11:39.139 right so as we are getting personally by the 00:11:39.139 --> 00:11:41.919 time this Episode airs we're gonna be it's gonna 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.320 be about the first week of school for us, but 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.240 other places are going to be a Couple weeks out 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:49.960 from school starting some of them might have 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:51.960 already started but near the beginning of the 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:55.600 year It's really important that our library has 00:11:55.600 --> 00:12:00.059 a welcoming environment that the kids come in 00:12:00.059 --> 00:12:03.139 and feel comfortable and safe and and so different 00:12:03.139 --> 00:12:05.500 like Setting up your library so that you have 00:12:05.500 --> 00:12:07.159 that welcoming environment, especially at the 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:08.840 beginning of the year should always be a welcoming 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:10.659 environment, but the beginning of the year is 00:12:10.659 --> 00:12:12.220 that first part where you're roping the kids 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:15.759 in and setting the foundation for the year. So 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:17.100 it's really important at the beginning of the 00:12:17.100 --> 00:12:23.879 year. So our library management tip is making 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.399 sure that that library environment is welcoming. 00:12:27.139 --> 00:12:29.620 We were talking about it and having some like 00:12:29.620 --> 00:12:32.659 beginning of the year book displays, having like 00:12:32.659 --> 00:12:35.080 even just. little things like having some soft 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.679 seating for the kids to be able to come in and 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:42.200 use. I'm going to use your suggestion from a 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.919 previous podcast. I'm looking forward to setting 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:49.120 up a bulletin board of the books we read this 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:51.340 year. And so I want to have that set up so they 00:12:51.340 --> 00:12:53.500 can see that we're going to be keeping track 00:12:53.500 --> 00:12:55.019 of all the cool books that we're going to read 00:12:55.019 --> 00:13:00.620 this year, that kind of thing. You know, maybe 00:13:00.620 --> 00:13:02.600 the first couple times they come in you don't 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:06.419 have all of the super harsh lights on you know 00:13:06.419 --> 00:13:08.600 Like if you can dim the lights a little bit and 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.779 make it more like of a warm calming vibe calm 00:13:12.779 --> 00:13:15.399 vibe, you know, yeah that kind of thing anything 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:19.559 that you can do to make it so it's it's Comfortable 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.700 and kind of sets the children's mind at ease 00:13:22.700 --> 00:13:26.919 Another part of that is also just setting up 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.399 those boundaries and those expectations and those 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.899 routines, because especially our youngest students, 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.639 if they know what to expect, if they know where 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:39.840 the lines are of what they can get away with 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:42.679 and what's not acceptable, and that you're going 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:46.120 to be there to remind them of how to act, all 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.179 of those things actually are really comforting 00:13:48.179 --> 00:13:51.419 for the students to know that you're there to 00:13:51.419 --> 00:13:54.139 provide those things for them. And so building 00:13:54.139 --> 00:13:57.909 that environment, building those expectations, 00:13:58.090 --> 00:14:01.590 all of that truly ends up helping in the long 00:14:01.590 --> 00:14:04.750 run to have a positive year. And so anything 00:14:04.750 --> 00:14:09.730 that you can do, my wife is super crafty. And 00:14:09.730 --> 00:14:12.210 so like we have, I have some old t -shirts, like 00:14:12.210 --> 00:14:14.730 superhero t -shirts that she made into pillowcases. 00:14:14.830 --> 00:14:18.269 And so we're going to have some pillows that 00:14:18.269 --> 00:14:20.950 kids can sit on when it's time for them to kind 00:14:20.950 --> 00:14:23.860 of like... read to self, they're gonna have some 00:14:23.860 --> 00:14:25.700 soft seating like that that they can grab and 00:14:25.700 --> 00:14:28.100 sit and read and things like that to help make 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:30.759 it a welcoming and comfortable environment for 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:36.220 them. Doing just little things like that that 00:14:36.220 --> 00:14:40.299 make it so it's not a high stress, high anxiety 00:14:40.299 --> 00:14:45.620 kind of room. That's one great thing about libraries 00:14:45.620 --> 00:14:50.279 and the librarian is like, we don't take grades. 00:14:52.049 --> 00:14:57.250 We're not evaluating the kids so much. We might 00:14:57.250 --> 00:14:59.690 be trying to figure out what kind of books they 00:14:59.690 --> 00:15:02.370 like and that kind of thing, but it's not like 00:15:02.370 --> 00:15:06.970 a performative evaluation of you did or didn't 00:15:06.970 --> 00:15:10.330 do this correctly. And so making sure that the 00:15:10.330 --> 00:15:13.190 environment doesn't feel like that's what we're 00:15:13.190 --> 00:15:15.149 doing, like that we're judging the students. 00:15:15.990 --> 00:15:19.149 Because we're one of the few people that we don't 00:15:19.149 --> 00:15:22.100 have to. So many other, like all the other teachers, 00:15:22.340 --> 00:15:23.720 that's what they're doing is they're trying to 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.200 grade and judge and see where this kid's deficits 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.779 are and trying to fill those gaps and that kind 00:15:27.779 --> 00:15:32.820 of, which is important. But the kids feel that. 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:34.779 And so having the library be a place where they 00:15:34.779 --> 00:15:38.179 can come in and just be like, no one is judging 00:15:38.179 --> 00:15:42.039 me based on a performance or like letting them 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:45.039 take that big sigh of like deep breath in, like 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.840 to relieve that is important. And so anything 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:51.220 that you can do to make the... the library yeah 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:54.659 less stressful you know like if you can like 00:15:54.659 --> 00:15:57.679 some ambient background music something you know 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.080 anything that you can do to help with that for 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.860 sure yeah all the calming vibes in the world 00:16:02.860 --> 00:16:07.820 yeah yeah i was in an art uh a year or two ago 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:12.909 and for a student who did not qualify for services 00:16:12.909 --> 00:16:16.750 and they were asking me how he does and such 00:16:16.750 --> 00:16:19.549 and I was giving him my feedback and everything 00:16:19.549 --> 00:16:22.970 but they were asking me how good his language 00:16:22.970 --> 00:16:25.710 is and I was like he doesn't stand out but I 00:16:25.710 --> 00:16:27.889 also haven't taken specific notes or anything 00:16:27.889 --> 00:16:31.049 because we don't when we're in the library like 00:16:31.289 --> 00:16:34.470 I want it to be a welcoming environment. I want 00:16:34.470 --> 00:16:38.690 all kids to be accepted. And I'm not going to 00:16:38.690 --> 00:16:40.830 take notes on anything because that's not part 00:16:40.830 --> 00:16:43.129 of my job. My job is to make sure that they just 00:16:43.129 --> 00:16:45.190 love learning and they love literacy and they 00:16:45.190 --> 00:16:48.769 are coming back to the library. Like I'm not 00:16:48.769 --> 00:16:52.350 going to be taking notes on like if there's a 00:16:52.350 --> 00:16:55.330 big problem, I will, but there's not a big problem 00:16:55.330 --> 00:16:58.370 here. So no notes are taken. Thank you so much. 00:16:59.009 --> 00:17:04.160 Like judgment free zone. In here. Yeah, I agree. 00:17:04.299 --> 00:17:06.220 All the calming vibes at the beginning of the 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:08.180 year, especially. It's at the beginning of the 00:17:08.180 --> 00:17:10.880 year is just for rapport building to me, really. 00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:14.579 Just building a positive relationship so everybody 00:17:14.579 --> 00:17:16.859 wants to come back and feels loved and feels 00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:20.200 invited. Yeah. And that's the thing. That's what 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:22.400 the library should be, is that welcoming place 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.740 where everyone can feel comfortable. So yeah, 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:26.779 there's judgment freeze on, you know? The library 00:17:26.779 --> 00:17:33.119 is for everyone. Yeah, it's true. Well, the next 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:36.819 book that we're gonna talk about today is called 00:17:36.819 --> 00:17:41.819 Bear Feels Sad. It is part of the bear series 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:47.119 by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman. It was published 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:53.960 by Margaret K. McCot -Edler Bear. Oh dear, I 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:58.140 cannot say this name. Margaret K. I practice 00:17:58.140 --> 00:18:02.960 it in my brain and I still can't say it. McKendler. 00:18:03.660 --> 00:18:07.940 I did it. McKendler. Okay. I should have practiced 00:18:07.940 --> 00:18:10.740 it out loud instead of in my brain. Lesson learned. 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:17.539 Margaret K. McKendler books 2025. Anyway, thank 00:18:17.539 --> 00:18:23.460 you. Go team. All right. Um, this book has not 00:18:23.460 --> 00:18:27.900 won any awards, um, on its own, but it is part 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:33.019 of that 15 book. Bear Series, the first of which 00:18:33.019 --> 00:18:36.140 was Bear Snores On. Some of the other books in 00:18:36.140 --> 00:18:39.079 the series have won awards and been on state 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:41.339 lists. Some of the awards they've won have been 00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:45.240 the CCBC Choice Book Award, the Charlotte Zolotow 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:51.099 Award, and ALSC Notable Books. And Karma Wilson 00:18:51.099 --> 00:18:55.210 was the only child to a single... a single mother. 00:18:55.490 --> 00:18:58.430 She grew up in rural Idaho. Without much else 00:18:58.430 --> 00:19:01.410 to do for entertainment, Karma spent lots of 00:19:01.410 --> 00:19:04.210 time in the great outdoors. She was also a voracious 00:19:04.210 --> 00:19:06.730 reader. By the time she was 11, she was reading 00:19:06.730 --> 00:19:10.349 a novel a day. Although her mother was a writer 00:19:10.349 --> 00:19:13.410 and Karma loved to read, she didn't consider 00:19:13.410 --> 00:19:15.509 becoming a writer herself because she thought 00:19:15.509 --> 00:19:19.509 it was too boring and mundane. However, after 00:19:19.509 --> 00:19:21.869 having her own children and purchasing her first 00:19:21.869 --> 00:19:24.150 home computer, she decided to try her hand at 00:19:24.150 --> 00:19:27.190 writing. After three years of rejection, she 00:19:27.190 --> 00:19:31.269 finally got Bare Snores On published in 2002. 00:19:31.690 --> 00:19:34.150 I didn't realize that was her first book, and 00:19:34.150 --> 00:19:36.089 I didn't know that she tried that long to get 00:19:36.089 --> 00:19:41.089 it published either. Three years, yeah. I mean, 00:19:41.150 --> 00:19:44.150 that's impressive that she had the fortitude 00:19:44.150 --> 00:19:48.589 to continue pushing on. I know, right? And now, 00:19:48.750 --> 00:19:52.710 she's written over 40 books. 15 of those are 00:19:52.710 --> 00:19:54.829 the bare books. A few of the other titles that 00:19:54.829 --> 00:19:58.230 she's written include, I Love Your Face, illustrated 00:19:58.230 --> 00:20:02.450 by A .G. Ford, A Dog Named Doug, illustrated 00:20:02.450 --> 00:20:05.869 by Matt Myers, and Where Is Home, Little Pip, 00:20:06.210 --> 00:20:12.930 illustrated by Jane Chapman. Jane Chapman is 00:20:12.930 --> 00:20:15.869 the illustrator. She studied illustration at 00:20:15.869 --> 00:20:19.750 Brighton University and currently lives in Dorset. 00:20:20.170 --> 00:20:24.490 She is both a children's author and illustrator 00:20:24.490 --> 00:20:28.049 and has illustrated over a hundred books to date. 00:20:28.529 --> 00:20:30.769 In the beginning of her career she published 00:20:30.769 --> 00:20:35.109 work under the pseudonym Jack Tickle. Many of 00:20:35.109 --> 00:20:37.890 those books are still being published today. 00:20:39.140 --> 00:20:44.660 And so she has illustrated all 15 of the Bear 00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:48.079 books from the series. And some of the books 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.660 that she has written and illustrated include 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:55.759 Mole's Quiet Place, The Littlest Christmas Tree, 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.140 Goodbye Bear, and I Love You With All My Heart. 00:21:01.660 --> 00:21:04.000 Yeah, I didn't realize Jane Chapman did that 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.000 much work and that she'd written over a hundred 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.059 or illustrated over a hundred books. I know. 00:21:09.940 --> 00:21:13.599 And she's busy. I know. In one of my other libraries, 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:17.099 I had a ton of Jack Tickle books. I didn't know 00:21:17.099 --> 00:21:19.059 they were her. They're all I don't know if you've 00:21:19.059 --> 00:21:21.960 seen any of them. They're all board books and 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:25.240 they're all like for toddlers. And a lot of them 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:29.119 have sounds like they're one of those books that 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:30.539 where you push the button and make the sound 00:21:30.539 --> 00:21:33.839 with it. Oh, OK. A lot of them are those. Yeah, 00:21:33.859 --> 00:21:36.359 they're really I mean, they're older. They're 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:41.049 not right. they're not like groundbreaking or 00:21:41.049 --> 00:21:42.990 anything. There's plenty of books kind of like 00:21:42.990 --> 00:21:45.589 that are still being published like that. But 00:21:45.589 --> 00:21:48.890 I just did, I was like, I have like 20 of those 00:21:48.890 --> 00:21:51.509 or I did anyway before they closed my library 00:21:51.509 --> 00:21:55.130 and made me so sad. But I had no idea that was 00:21:55.130 --> 00:21:58.890 her. That was just surprising to me. Yeah. I 00:21:58.890 --> 00:22:01.829 think there was a, I think when that library 00:22:01.829 --> 00:22:05.329 first opened, they published like, all of or 00:22:05.329 --> 00:22:07.430 purchased all of them for that library and then 00:22:07.430 --> 00:22:09.789 with good reason they were good books yeah i 00:22:09.789 --> 00:22:14.309 just had no idea that was a surprise to me anyway 00:22:14.309 --> 00:22:18.269 for the book summary for bear's dad bear's friends 00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:21.380 are all busy for the day and Bear feels lonely 00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:24.099 and bored without all of them. After trying a 00:22:24.099 --> 00:22:26.680 few things to cheer himself up, like having a 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.220 snack, he decides to do something kind for his 00:22:30.220 --> 00:22:32.259 friends instead, and he picks them all flowers, 00:22:32.299 --> 00:22:34.400 and eventually all of his friends come home at 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.279 the end of the day, and they've all been doing 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:37.779 all their separate things, and they all feel 00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:41.140 very happy to come together and just be together 00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:46.289 at last at the end of the day. The whole bear 00:22:46.289 --> 00:22:49.289 series is pretty great. I like this one a whole 00:22:49.289 --> 00:22:52.589 lot too. I think I would give this one a four 00:22:52.589 --> 00:22:56.109 out of five probably. It's got the great rhyming 00:22:56.109 --> 00:22:59.009 scheme. I really like the cadence of all of the 00:22:59.009 --> 00:23:02.329 bear books. They're just so lovely and calming. 00:23:02.450 --> 00:23:04.250 Something about the way it's written, the cadence 00:23:04.250 --> 00:23:09.089 is just beautiful. I love how it rhymes and it's 00:23:09.089 --> 00:23:14.119 somewhat repetitive but not overly so. They're 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:18.000 great. And this one fits right in with the rest 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:20.380 of them. I especially love the illustrations 00:23:20.380 --> 00:23:22.900 in this one, too, with all the flowers and everything. 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:27.480 It's exceptionally bright and vibrant, really, 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:30.279 really eye -catching, but not overly done. It's 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:32.920 not overwhelmingly, so it's really beautiful. 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.599 I really, really enjoyed it a whole lot. This 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.380 one was good. I liked that Bear was trying some 00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:45.279 strategies to cheer himself up. I liked that 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.279 it showed that he was, like it did say that he 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:51.359 was sad, but then it also kind of reiterated 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:53.839 like different versions of sad and like why he 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.099 might be sad that he's lonely and he needs his 00:23:56.099 --> 00:23:58.480 friends, or he's bored and he has nothing to 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:03.069 do. So it was kind of... It was talking about 00:24:03.069 --> 00:24:05.069 sad but then it was also about talking about 00:24:05.069 --> 00:24:10.150 more specific sad adjacent feelings and I really 00:24:10.150 --> 00:24:12.450 liked that it kind of it was kind of a good way 00:24:12.450 --> 00:24:15.430 to talk about other feelings that were associated 00:24:15.430 --> 00:24:19.210 with a different more broad feeling if that makes 00:24:19.210 --> 00:24:25.400 sense So I enjoyed that too and I did like that 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:28.420 it showed a group of friends that are clearly 00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:31.319 good friends with each other, and it showed that 00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:33.299 how they were, and I guess you should, you could 00:24:33.299 --> 00:24:35.680 just, maybe I give it a five out of five. Maybe 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:38.920 I like this book more than I thought I did. I 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:41.700 liked that it did show a group of friends that 00:24:41.700 --> 00:24:44.000 were good friends with each other, but they were 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.579 also kind of going off to do their separate things. 00:24:46.619 --> 00:24:50.660 I think a lot of pre -K kids especially get kind 00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:55.529 of tied into the misconception that if they're 00:24:55.529 --> 00:24:58.329 friends with somebody they have to be with them 00:24:58.329 --> 00:25:02.230 all the time and it is not okay for those friends 00:25:02.230 --> 00:25:04.490 to go hang out with anybody else and it's not 00:25:04.490 --> 00:25:07.029 okay we are best friends you can't be friends 00:25:07.029 --> 00:25:10.809 with them that's my best friend and it was kind 00:25:10.809 --> 00:25:14.670 of a nice change there that everybody was like 00:25:14.670 --> 00:25:18.589 separated doing their own thing some of it's 00:25:18.589 --> 00:25:20.890 with other you know animal characters from the 00:25:20.890 --> 00:25:25.440 other series and it's still okay, everybody can 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:26.720 still come together at the end of the day and 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:28.460 we can still be friends at the end of the day 00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:31.559 and we can still have our time together. We get 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:33.940 our independence, but we have our together time 00:25:33.940 --> 00:25:38.079 too. And it just is a really nice balance of 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:42.059 the two. Yeah, it was just a great one. And this 00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:46.079 one, it did focus more on sad and it did have 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:48.880 happy at the end. So it's really only two emotions, 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:52.269 but in... The bear series there's other books 00:25:52.269 --> 00:25:55.630 like bear feels scared is a good one for talking 00:25:55.630 --> 00:25:59.470 about scared I know there's a really one where 00:25:59.470 --> 00:26:01.670 he gets really excited about something. There's 00:26:01.670 --> 00:26:03.990 another big emotions one. I don't remember the 00:26:03.990 --> 00:26:09.230 name of it anyway There's because this series 00:26:09.230 --> 00:26:11.990 is so big and it's so great for pre -k like you 00:26:11.990 --> 00:26:15.990 really could have several bare books together 00:26:15.990 --> 00:26:18.470 in the series and just like focus on the emotion 00:26:18.470 --> 00:26:20.710 pieces of them if you were going to do a big 00:26:20.710 --> 00:26:24.109 emotions lesson with your class. So I liked it. 00:26:24.130 --> 00:26:26.470 It was a good one. Maybe it's a 4 .5 out of 5 00:26:26.470 --> 00:26:29.410 for me. Yeah, I think maybe some humor in there 00:26:29.410 --> 00:26:32.960 and I'd make it a 5. I like it. I agree. I love 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:35.559 this series. And this is a good book. It is solid. 00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:38.220 There are some that I like a little bit better. 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:42.259 But overall, solid book. The illustrations are 00:26:42.259 --> 00:26:44.640 always amazing. This one was particularly bright, 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:47.819 which I did enjoy. And yeah, you're right. The 00:26:47.819 --> 00:26:50.500 rhyming, the cadence, the rhythm that goes with 00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:54.039 it is... I always find myself attracted to books 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:57.319 like that because I think it keeps the student's 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:00.650 attention more. um when there's that rhythm to 00:27:00.650 --> 00:27:04.190 it and so um yeah i love this book it was great 00:27:04.190 --> 00:27:09.190 yeah it was a good one and i um for this one 00:27:09.190 --> 00:27:12.369 in particular there's i didn't know how many 00:27:12.369 --> 00:27:17.269 amazing resources are on karma wilson's website 00:27:17.269 --> 00:27:22.619 she has several different um sections of her 00:27:22.619 --> 00:27:24.759 website. There's like a kids corner with which 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:27.559 has her like reading books that you could show 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:31.220 to your class and do like a an introduction to 00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:33.839 a virtual author study if you wanted to. So you 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:35.779 can kind of see who wrote the book and everything. 00:27:35.779 --> 00:27:40.559 And then there were so many I didn't specifically 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:42.700 write down a makerspace activity for this one 00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:46.059 because there were like 10 different like pre 00:27:46.059 --> 00:27:49.500 -made activities you could do with your class. 00:27:49.700 --> 00:27:52.920 My favorite of which was there's a little template 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:56.420 for a bear that you could have the kids color. 00:27:57.059 --> 00:27:59.759 If it's pre -k, you'd probably have to help them 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:04.240 cut it out. But then you could easily make it 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.200 into a little paper bag puppet and reenact the 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:11.099 story. So and that would work really for any 00:28:11.099 --> 00:28:13.680 of the bear books, like because they all have 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:17.299 the same characters and everything. So that one 00:28:17.299 --> 00:28:19.559 was my favorite. of the ones that I saw on there 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:21.299 for this book in particular, but there are a 00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:24.539 lot of like really excellent resources on Karma 00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:27.619 Wilson's website. I strongly recommend visiting 00:28:27.619 --> 00:28:30.700 if you haven't seen it. That's cool. Yeah, I 00:28:30.700 --> 00:28:32.240 haven't been to the website. I'm gonna have to 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.660 check it out because that sounds awesome and 00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:37.259 I know that kids would love to have their own 00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:39.599 little puppet to be able to play with and retell 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.960 the story and stuff. That would be really engaging 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.569 for the students, so that would be cool. That 00:28:44.569 --> 00:28:47.289 one was super cool. Yeah and you could also with 00:28:47.289 --> 00:28:50.170 this book in particular because Bear, the thing 00:28:50.170 --> 00:28:53.029 that really cheered at Bear was since he was 00:28:53.029 --> 00:28:55.029 missing his friends and he was lonely, the thing 00:28:55.029 --> 00:28:57.430 that made him feel happy again was doing something 00:28:57.430 --> 00:28:59.230 kind for his friends so he would have something 00:28:59.230 --> 00:29:01.269 to give them at the end of the day. You could 00:29:01.269 --> 00:29:03.470 also for a makerspace activity have the kids 00:29:03.470 --> 00:29:07.150 draw some kind of a picture or something for 00:29:07.150 --> 00:29:10.230 their friends or do something kind for each other. 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:12.960 to kind of build their friendships a little bit 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:16.079 too. But if we were going to use something from 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.059 the website, you could also make that puppet, 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:20.180 which I really like. I might do that later this 00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:22.180 year. I don't know. We'll see how ambitious I'm 00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:24.960 feeling. That would be fun. And I think the kids, 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:26.619 like I said, I think the kids would really enjoy 00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:30.220 it. And they would too. Like being able to retell 00:29:30.220 --> 00:29:32.619 a story and like having that puppet to help them 00:29:32.619 --> 00:29:36.259 do it builds a lot of other skills that are important. 00:29:36.339 --> 00:29:41.769 So that's cool. It does. Yes. Very cool. Yeah. 00:29:43.829 --> 00:29:46.549 Well, thank all of you for joining us today on 00:29:46.549 --> 00:29:49.269 this episode of Librarians of Littles. We hope 00:29:49.269 --> 00:29:51.930 you found some fresh ideas for inspiring young 00:29:51.930 --> 00:29:54.490 readers. Please be sure to subscribe and connect 00:29:54.490 --> 00:29:59.230 with us on social media. Happy reading. Thank 00:29:59.230 --> 00:30:01.869 you for listening to this episode of Librarians 00:30:01.869 --> 00:30:04.730 of Littles. We hope that you've enjoyed it. Check 00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:09.109 back each Wednesday for a new episode. 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