Wasatch County Library

In photographs and simple text, children contrast things that make them feel sad with those that do not, knowing that the sadness will pass.

"Sometimes kids have questions about why they feel sad. This title covers reasons one might feel sad and ways that can help"--

A boy gets rid of everything that might make him sad and is sad anyway until he realizes that those things are also what makes him happy, and one emotion is impossible without the other.

Little Mole is sad, so his mother teaches him about hope by leading the way out of their dark burrow into a bright world filled with the promise of spring.

Lily imagines her sadness as a hole, which is getting bigger and swallowing up her life--until a friend shows her how to patch her hole and make it managable.

Tina tiene un nudo en la garganta porque Toni se va dos meses a cada de sus tíos. ¡No hay nada que pueda animarla! Por suerte, juntos enontrarán un solución ideal para vencer la tristeza y la añoranza.

A little boy who has lost his mother and father and now lives with his grandmother brings a lost dog from the animal shelter home with him and learns that when it comes to love, it's quality not quantity that counts.

A young child experiences sadness as if it were a visitor, acknowledging the emotion and suggesting activities to do with it.

Mouse's friends try everything to keep their friend from feeling low--flapping and fluttering in the sky, splashing and paddling in the water, leaping and loping in the grass--but nothing seems to cheer him up.

"Boo-hoo! Mimi is not having a good day. She can't get her pigtails to sit right, she's not in the mood for her favorite breakfast, and she's far from feeling like her usual self. Mimi has a case of the Blahs, where nothing feels quite right. With the help of Penelope, her magical toy dog and best friend, she sets out to find a way to get rid of this icky feeling. Will Mimi reclaim her spark, or will the Blahs get the best of her?"--Provided by publisher....