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In a sequel to her bestselling When Sophie Gets Angry... , Caldecott Honor Illustrator Molly Bang asks: What hurts your feelings, and what do you do about it?Everyone's feelings get hurt, and it's especially painful in childhood. In this story, Bang's popular character Sophie is hurt when the other children laugh at her and tell her she's wrong. Sophie's face gets hot, and tears begin to flow. Then she questions herself and the value of the choices she's made.At issue is Sophie's colorful, expressive painting of her favorite tree. Sophie loves it, but her picture is different from the paintings done by the other students. "The sky isn't orange! Trees aren't blue! Your picture is wrong!" they tell her.In addition to the book's subtle art lesson (imagine the skies of Vincent van Gogh, for example), readers have the opportunity to compare and contrast all the paintings done in Sophie's class. In the end, the students learn there are many different ways to interpret the world -- and each other. Here is a simple story that tackles the common issue of hurt feelings as it gently helps us to be more kind.
Author Notes
Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated.
Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book
Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-Sophie is back, and so is the beech tree to which she retreats in the Caldecott Honor book When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry (Scholastic, 1999). This time her teacher asks the class to "find a tree you like a LOT. Look at it carefully.... Tomorrow you're going to paint that tree from memory." As she studies her tree, Sophie notes its thick base, how it thins as it reaches skyward and how the branches curve. She even notices how the sun makes the leaves glow. At school, the young artist wants to convey how happy and alive the tree makes her feel, so she paints it a vibrant turquoise with chartreuse leaves against an orange sky. "She paints yellow all around it, as if it's shining. She fills her shining tree with animals she has seen in the woods." Sadly, her pride and satisfaction are short-lived; "We're supposed to paint a REAL tree, Sophie. You did it WRONG!" Her classmates' whispers and laughter bring tears of hurt and embarrassment. "She wants to JUST NOT BE THERE.... She hates her picture." With gentle questions her wise teacher helps the children understand that "Sophie looked very carefully and painted what she saw...and she used color to show her feelings." Ms. Mulry is able to diffuse the situation without making accusations or taking sides, so that the children appreciate and respect one another's work. Bang has chosen a common school scenario and sees it through to a satisfying resolution. Her signature chunky, full-spread paintings celebrate color, creativity, and diversity. The hand-printed text complements the childlike art. VERDICT All libraries will want this bold offering for lessons on classroom manners, art, and individuality.-Barbara Auerbach, New York City Public Schools © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
The heroine of Bang's When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry returns more than 15 years after that Caldecott Honor-winning picture book. At school, Sophie's class is asked to create pictures of their favorite trees from memory. When Sophie paints her favorite beech tree-the very one she took refuge in during the previous book-she colors it bright blue to show how happy it makes her feel. "You did it wrong," accuses another student, bringing Sophie to tears, but Sophie's empathic teacher intervenes: "Both artists looked carefully at their trees and made very different-and very special-paintings," she says, showing Sophie's painting beside the boy's realistically colored tree. Bang's thickly painted images exude energy and feeling, both in the children's expressions and through the exaggerated dimensions, angles, and colors. It's another lovely study in emotion from Bang and a thoughtful exploration of art-making. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.