情緒不暴走：大吼大叫生氣天 My Big Shouting Day

　　
　　『昨天我起床的時候，
　　發現巴布在房間裡，還伸出伸出舌頭舔我的項鍊…
　　我大叫：「快點出去！」
　　就這樣，我開始大吼大叫的一天。』
　　
　　從早餐到睡前，貝拉一整天的心情糟透了，
　　所有的事情都不對勁，她只能不停的大吼大叫！
　　可是壞心情不會永遠持續下去，因為媽媽會在身旁給她擁抱和愛。
　　最後，貝拉還學會了這個特別的字：「對不起！」
　　
　　作者蕾貝卡（Rebecca Patterson）以同理心面對孩子的暴走，讓貝拉盡情發洩，最後以愛的抱抱畫下句點。在畫面中，貝拉大吼大叫、哭鬧、抱怨、挑剔、耍賴……暴走行為讓人看了好氣又好笑！許多小孩都有類似的經驗，這個故事提供大人一個絕佳的機會，和幼兒談論生氣時能用什麼方式表達，如何面對壞心情，以及大吼大叫帶來的結果，是一本能讓大人和小孩好好談心的幽默圖畫書。
　　
媒體好評

◎《貝拉的生氣天》展現了大人對幼兒脫序行為的出色觀察，所有不曾注意到孩子任性行為背後幽默一面的媽媽們，都該看看這本書──它讓你忍不住大笑出聲，尤其是當你身處其中的時候。這本書一定會成為經典。──周日郵報
　　
◎ 每個孩子都有過和貝拉相似的經歷，這個故事很容易引起幼兒的共鳴。他們能從書中得到安慰，了解壞日子不會一直持續下去，而開心的日子就在前方。──美國學校圖書館期刊
　　
◎ 以幽默有趣的方式呈現幼兒大哭大鬧的情緒化行為……一本精彩的圖畫書，讓大人有機會和幼兒聊聊如何面對糟糕的一天和壞心情，並在最後給孩子安慰的擁抱。──蘭開夏晚報
 
　　——中文書介摘錄自《貝拉的生氣天》，米奇巴克出版

　　"Yesterday I woke up and Bob was crawling around MY ROOM, licking MY JEWELLERY, so I shouted GET OUT OF MY ROOM! and that was the start of MY BIG SHOUTING DAY..."

　　Bella is having one of those days - her biscuit is broken, she has a hurting foot and ballet is TOOOO itchy for words. All she can do is shout! But by the end of the day, when she's all tired out from being shouty, Bella knows there's one magic word and one magic mummy to make things better again...

作者簡介

　　Rebecca grew up in Bolton, and first studied Fashion. After graduating, she worked at an assortment of jobs, including being an classroom assistant in a primary school, while sending out manuscripts for picture books. Once her own children had started school, Rebecca began an MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art and had her first picture books commissioned at the end of the course, including THE DEEP END (published by Macmillan) and MY BIG SHOUTING DAY. Rebecca's work is inspired by her own childhood and her children's lives, with stories often starting as games or something made up in the back of a car to amuse a child. She lives in Cambridge.