The book has helped my daughter understand that sometimes when she gets angry for no reason and it may be normal as the girl inn the book does this as well. But it isn't until the last page that Bella's mother makes any attempt to help her work through her feelings, while at the same time being implausibly patient.

Today I woke up and Bob was crawling around MY ROOM, licking MY JEWELLERY, so I shouted GET OUT OF MY ROOM! 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.It's a great way to open up dialog about what to do with their big emotions and how to handle it and that's especially more important now than ever. This book is so brilliantly observed that it should be compulsory reading for all mothers who think they might have stopped seeing the funny side of an impossibly opinionated toddler . I work part time in a local primary school as a Teaching Assistant where I whisper stuff like 'I never had to know about fronted adverbials' to small children. i think its a great book i like the illustrations and i like the theme, its funny and cute and every parent will relate to a day of lots of shouting!

Some of the best children's literature has been written about characters who are less than perfectly behaved. WINNER OF THE ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE 2012″Today I woke up and Bob was crawling around MY ROOM, licking MY JEWELLERY, so I shouted GET OUT OF MY ROOM!The trouble with Bella, the main character in My Big Shouting Day is that she is, as Jess and Thomas say, just too shouty. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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.

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. Funny and well-observed, with big bold illustrations and telling facial expressions, My Big Shouting Day is ideal for classroom use. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Other than that it’s just a brilliant story, with an opportunity to use different volumes of your own! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

One day a strange parcel arrives at Bella and George's door containing a lovely human baby named Zagazoo. Bought for a shouty 3 year old, who laughed as he realised that is exactly what he was like, so we turned a shouty day into a laughing day instead. I bought this for my 17 month old Daughter but to be honest i think its a bit old for her yet so she will probably enjoy it when she is more like 3. This hilarious rhyming book by Kes Gray and illustrated by Garry Parsons is a brilliantly silly one to share, especially at bedtime in the run up to Christmas. And it’s a lovely way to unwind after a shouty day of your own, perfect for talking about feelings and how we all have off days.She was engrossed in the story and there were lots of opportunities to further discussion and relate to her own experiences. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book will definitely make children laugh at Bella's outrageous antics - Joy Court, Reading Zone You may also be interested in. But Mum gives her a kiss and a cuddle, and reads Bella her favourite bedtime story anyway and at last Bella says 'sorry' for her big shouting day. My children don't empathise with Bella not because they haven't had tantrums – believe me, they have – but because it's all just a little too realistic, without any humour thrown in for good measure.