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Definitely does a good job of exploring how kids change their personalities very quickly and makes young leaders understand how they may sometimes behave. However, the volleying back-and-forth between the split personalities can seem confusing. We enjoyed "The Hello Goodbye Window" a bit more.
I get how this book could be super useful for reading with, and then using as a shorthand to talk with, a small child.
Too much of an initially cute thing here. Fun artwork, but I grew weary of this little girl, and wanted to send her to her room to stay. (Maybe that was the point.)
We all enjoyed the illustrations of Chris Raschka... but I didn't love the execution of Juster's story. I was eager to read this because we all loved "The Hello, Goodbye Window" and also because a story with this message *could* have been well-received in our home since my two little ones can be sourpusses and sweetie pies all within the span of five minutes and I was hoping this would provide us a with a loving and humorous look at normal early childhood occurrence but this one didn't match my
This one is the fun sequel to The Hello, Goodbye Window, and it reflects on the changing moods of young children and how sometimes they don't even know how to explain their own feelings. Another great one to read with littles.
Sourpuss or Sweetie Pie? Who will show up at Nanna and Poppy's house? Their little granddaughter can change moods in the blink of an eye. She can be joyful and happy, then angry and depressed. Sometimes she can be both. Nanna and Poppy always handle her with patience and love, but the mood changes wear them out. This vibrant watercolor picture book, with the granddaughter's multiple body language expressions, will have readers identifying with Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie.
Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie tells about a little girl who goes to visit her grandparents. This girl has good moods and bad moods. In her good moods, her family calls her Sweetie Pie, but in her bad moods they call her Sourpuss. She goes throughout her visit experiencing mood changes, but tells the reader that ultimately it's better to be a Sweetie Pie than it is to be a Sourpuss.I like this book a lot. I think it would've been a special book for my older sister who is bipolar. She knows what it's l...
The illustrations are quite unique in this book. It really shows kids how sometimes we are both sourpusses and sweetie pies, but to be understanding. This book can help with classroom environment!
We recently read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and I read an interview with him (here) that mentions that he is also the author of The Hello, Goodbye Window (which we liked) and this book, too, which is a continuation of that story. So we just had to check it out. This is a sweet (and sour) tale that shows that we all have different moods and that sometimes they can be as changeable as the wind. I love the interaction between the little girl and her grandparents. The colorful watercolor...
There is no version of this kid I like at all.
The illustrations in this book are wonderful. They are abstract, very colorful, and every page is unique. The artist has a very interesting use of minimal lines causing the characters and object to be somewhat defined but still somewhat free-from at the same time, an example of this would be poppy’s nose, it is always defined by the same shaped black line. This illustrator used many techniques to give each object depicted the texture it needed to make it come alive by using different patterns of...
There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very, very good and when she wasn't, well, you didn't know what hit you -- and you never saw it coming, and then suddenly she was good again. And, of course, you love her anyway.This playfully illustrated confession of an all too familiar Jekyll and Hyde youngster invites us to look at, and laugh at, our many-sided selves.You can listen in on our chat about this book on our Just One Mo...
This book was really random. I thought several of the pages had been torn out because of the way the story portrayed the little girl. I could not figure what was going on and it was annoying. While I get that the story was trying to prove a point, it was overdone. I didn't really care for the little girl's mood swings and I thought there was too much flipping between extreme sweetness and brattiness. I just wanted the girl to cool down. I wouldn't recommend this book.*Taken from my book reviews
