This Makes Me Silly: Dealing with Feelings

In This Makes Me Silly, a little girl and her brother go with their family to the zoo, only to find that they can´t stop laughing! Between making funny monkey faces and stretching their arms for elephant trunks, it´s no wonder they snort out their milk at lunch. The little girl doesn´t see any harm in her silliness at first, but when she scares an animal by shouting and banging on the glass, she learns that there´s a time and place to be silly (like at the zoo playground), and a time and place to be calm (when animals are sleeping). The Dealing with Feelings series of early readers are designed to give voice to what´s brewing inside. Through short, simple text and repetitive observational phrases, the child will learn to name their emotions as they also learn to read.