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Barbara Throws a Wobbler

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Can be quite critical on how Barbra deals with emotions, what are the good things to do, what else could have happened? She challenges us to live differently, with empathy and compassion, and the book is packed with inspiring do-able ideas for how we can live our lives without causing cruelty. Few United States readers will know this British slang for tantrum—which Shireen paints like a close-up single scream—and the unfamiliar word brings extra gloriousness to the Wobbler’s manifestation as a great, red, googly-eyed creature, “gloopy and heavy, like an angry jelly.

Yet, rather than just Barbara being cross, an actual red, jelly-like cloud emerges above Barbara’s head and stays there, forbidding any hugs or friendly attempts at talking. Empathy appears in the new Welsh curriculum 35 times, and EmpathyLab works closely with many schools in Wales. Her debut book Good Little Wolf received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award and won the UKLA Book Award.Nadia was always destined for a career in illustration—as a child, she would doodle on her exercise books, while as a student she would doodle on her law degree notes. The Boys(Little Tiger) centres again on four children of different races and family backgrounds – Rey, Nattie, Bobby and Tam – but here the seaside replaces the tree, becoming both the setting and a symbol of uncontrollable emotions. Fun, silly, relatable, made my kids laugh and we now say ‘wobbler’ rather than ‘cross’ because they are still finding it funny! Thankfully Nadia Shireen isn’t giving us a ‘fix’ for wobblers, she is giving children a way to manage them when they appear - poor Barbara looks like she has a few more lurking wobblers to deal with going forward, just like every little Barbara out there.

Barbara Throws a Wobbler would work well in a classroom or nursery setting, and is guaranteed to get a laugh wherever and whenever it's read. The Short Knifeby Ellen Caldecott is the second title from Andersen Press and tells how two sisters fight against the patriarchy in post Roman Britain. I especially like the last page where it shows you different characters which children could use in a class to identify how they are feeling.

This is an entertaining and very cute story, which introduces young children to dealing with unhappy, unsettling feelings, the main one being the wobbler, but the back of the book does also feature, the sulk, the tizzy, the seethe, the huff, and the grump too, with their own little illustrated characters and descriptions. Some of my personal faves from my recent reads and many sit on our LoveReading4Kids Star Books list.

Every child deserves the chance to have an empathetic adult in their lives, and Miss Flotsam shows how powerfully transformative this can be.Through a laugh-out-loud story and loveable character, Nadia Shireen shows how to understand and dispel anxieties, one jitter at a time. In 2017, she collaborated with Book Trust to promote their Time To Read campaign, sending 700,000 copies of The Bumblebear to school children all across the UK.

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