This is a simple beginning book about the visitor known as sadness and how to handle it. I think it’s pretty good advice like sit with it and get to know it and ask it why it’s here. Befriend it and a new day will have it going away. I think this book is simple and brilliant. I think this is good for all ages, but its target is the very young. It so simply explains sadness in a way children get. This is a FANTASTIC book. FANTASTIC.
The artwork is simple, the lines are simple, the story is simple and the effect is so Powerful. It is one of the best books I’ve read this year. I’ve known sadness pretty well at times in my life and this book does sadness perfectly.
My niece and nephew don’t have a lot of sadness in their lives, but they still understood this. The niece gave this 4 stars and she asked if that was the way to handle sadness. I told her I thought it was one of the better ways. The nephew was weirdly enjoying this book too. He sad looking at sadness made him sad. He said the book made him feel sad, but the last page helped him feel happy again. He thought that was strange. He too gave this 4 stars because he thought that was neat.