When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry

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莫名的怒火上升，溫度不斷加熱，熊熊大火彷若要吞蝕掉週遭的一切事物。小時候總是容易亂發脾氣，一點小事情總是讓人無法忍耐。胸口總有個惡魔藏在那裡似的，讓人全身都不舒服，就是把別人生吞下去也有的勇氣。負面的情緒像是座即將爆發的火山，隨時都可用憤怒與不滿的熔漿給噴出。生氣、不安、沮喪、難過、趨於平緩、平靜。原來生氣是有這麼多不同的錯綜複雜的情緒存在著。

大人們總是容易壓抑小朋友的情緒，容易忽視小朋友的負面情緒原因，總教我們要有好脾氣，然而不是每個不滿都是沒有原因的。如何適當的處理生氣的情緒，與不要一直陷入焦灼的不安與氣氛中，也是我們該正視的。透過菲菲生氣裡的戲劇化與火紅色的高度的憤怒，讓每個小朋友都知道這樣不快樂與情緒化，是每個人都會必須面臨到的。但是別再害怕，每個人都會有開心和不開心的樣子，雖然貌似可怕，但是卻是可以逐漸改善你不滿的壓力與情緒。雖然大家都無法去完全的掌控自我的過度情緒化，但是可以去了解它、看待它。至少當我們不快樂和極度不滿的時候，可以不要再完全掉入這樣的流沙裡，爬都爬不起來了。

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Category: Feelings＂Oh is Sophie ever angry now!＂Everybody gets angry sometimes. For children, anger can be very upsetting. Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it. People do lots of different things when they get angry. In this Caldecott-honor book, kids will see what Sophie does when she gets angry. What do you do?＂...Bang’s double-page illustrations, vibrating with saturated colors, that reveal the drama of the child’s emotions.＂-SLJ, starred review＂...an elegant and thought-provoking book for...children learning how to deal with emotions.＂ -NY Times Book Review

Everybody gets angry sometimes. For children, anger can be very upsetting. Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it. People do lots of different things when they get angry. In this Caldecott Honor book, kids will see what Sophie does when she gets angry. What do you do?

Molly Bang has written and illustrated more than twenty books for young readers, including When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry... ; Ten, Nine, Eight; and The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, each of which were Caldecott Honor books. Bang divides her time between Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Northern California.