When I Feel Angry (Way I Feel)

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When I Feel Angry.......2007-09-11

This is a great book to help children understand anger; this book offers positive alternatives to hitting and other unacceptable behaviors in response to anger.

A simple yet powerful book.......2007-01-09

I purchased this book for my 4 year old son. I found it to be very well written and illustrated. As a School Psychologist myself, it's not always so easy to come up with the words when it involves your own child. However, I've seen a lot of books and this one just seems to work and the phrases and remarks seem to "stick" with my little guy. It's well priced through Amazon too because I first saw it in one of my professional catalogues and it was priced substantially higher. I think many children will be able to relate to the characters and feelings expressed in this book and it is so very important to help your children manage their feelings . . .

good .......2006-08-29

good book shows what to do when angry and what not to do. and gives ideas on what to do when angry..

excellent message!.......2006-06-19

This book discusses anger, its causes, how it feels, and most importantly, healthy options for dealing with it. Anger can be overwhelming and frightening for anyone, and even more so for young ones will little experience regulating their emotions.
This book is empathetic "When I feel angry I want to say something mean, or yell or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it." One of my favorite elements of this book is that it gives many options for dealing with anger, from
counting to bike riding to walking away, and from being assertive to taking a nap, and from handling the problem independently to asking for help.
I work in a classroom full of 3, 4 and 5 year olds, and kids sometimes call each other names, often grab things from one another and often would rather keep playing when the "clean-up" signal is given. This book is relevant to preschoolers.
The last sentence I wish was a mantra for us all. "When I feel anrgry, I know what to do!"

Too abstract.......2005-12-16

First, I have to confess that I had different expectations about this book (I thought it may be about other feelings too, but it's only about anger). The examples seemed poorly chosen for my 3-year old, who, for instance, does not really know what it means for somebody to make fun of him or why the teacher may unfairly berate him for talking in class. The idea of teaching kids that sometimes we cannot control the situation that angers us is good, but again, the example (I think one in which a favorite team loses a game) wasn't great. In general, the text was abstract and the illustration carried the burden of exemplifying what the text described...

May be more appropriate for an older child.

A Is for Angry: An Animal and Adjective Alphabet

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good vocabulary building book
Hurray for this book
C is for CUTE!!!
A is for Amazed
sandra does it again

A Is for Angry: An Animal and Adjective Alphabet
Sandra Boynton
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

"Because you can't stand another apple, ball, or cup," Sandra Boynton presents an alphabet book of animals and adjectives. An Angry Animal Assortment Along an Arrow starts off the whimsy as a Big Bashful Bear, a Cute Clean Cat, a Tangled Turkey, a Wide Walrus, a Yellow Yak, and others in between romp through the letters A-Z.

In classic Boyton style, the irresistible animal characters climb the tall letters, perch on the squat ones, hang from the curves of the round ones. Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club. Suitable for ages 3-5.

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good vocabulary building book.......2007-10-13

I've been looking for a fun book to give my 3-year-old words to express her feelings. It doesn't always describe feelings, but it does give her more words to use. Sandra Boynton books are always fun and she's always liked them.

Hurray for this book.......2004-02-04

This ranks right up there with the best of Boynton's childrens' books. (I don't like them all and I don't give many "5"s).

This is just such a fresh fun approach to the alphabet and it uses the best of her whimsical humor. So many alphabet books out there just use one noun for each letter but breaking from tradition she uses adjectives (gasp!) and nouns. She also doesn't use unicorn or umbrella for "U". Great for learning. Great for fun. Worth every penny.

I'm glad it became available again.

C is for CUTE!!!.......2001-11-22

I bought this for my 3 year old son and he loves it, as do my other kids, 5 and 2. The kids love the silly animals doing silly things, Sandra Boynton's trademark. There is an animal and an adjective beginning with each letter. I like that there are negative emotions sprinkled in-- ever get sick of kid's media being either all sweetness and light or all obnoxious backtalk, with no real life anywhere? My kids sit and discuss why the Anteater might be Angry (someone ate all the ants?) or why the Opossum is Outraged (the Playful Pig on the facing page is making fun of him!), which has been so interesting to listen to! This is a very cute, interesting, not ordinary alphabet book that is engaging for many ages.

A is for Amazed.......2000-07-18

My daughter was a year and eight months old when I first bought this book. Admittedly that's a bit early for an alphabet, but it was the illustrated adjectives that she loved from the start. Angry, Bashful, Clean, Dirty, ... Young, Zany. She was practicing facial expressions in the mirror and still imitates the cat's frown when she wants to warn us that we're crossing the line - and she's quick to giggle out of it when we recognize the imitation.

We started Boynton with a gift of Barnyard Dance (5/5) and have bought many since. A is for Angry, Snoozers, and Barnyard Dance are the most fun and stick more than any of our other books (by anybody), so far (eight months later).

Enthusiastically recommended.

sandra does it again.......2000-04-20

sandra boynton never fails to amuse myself and my son.her clever word plays and fun illustrations are a gem of children's books.

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Danny, the Angry Lion
D. Lachner
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Danny wanted sausages and raspberry juice for lunch, but his mother only gave him beans and potatoes. Danny hissed and angrily pushed his plate away. A wild and dangerous gleam shone in his eyes. Danny donned his lion suit, sharpened his claws, and set out on the prowl, determined to devour anything and anyone he got his paws on!?A series of surprising encounters takes the edge off Danny's appetite--and his anger--as Danny discovers how being friendly can turn the blackest mood bright.?

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dealing with anger

Angry Dragon
Thierry Robberecht
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When a little boy hears "no" from his mother one time too many, he feels his anger rising. It burns and builds, finally turning him into a giant dragon that destroys everything in its path. Nothing is safe: not toys or stuffed animalsnot even Mom and Dad. But fortunately, a dragon's fire doesn't last forever. The simple, bold illustrations give shape to the power that emotions have to overwhelm and transform us, and vividly bring to life the angry dragon that lurks inside us all.

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dealing with anger.......2005-03-26

This book is about a little boy and his feeling. He has heard his mom says no too many times in his opinion and he loses control. He describes himself as a dragon. He says he feels like the anger is burning inside him and he spits out the worst words ever - "I Hate you". After being left alone for a little while he starts to think about what he's done. His mom and dad hug him and he starts to feel like a little boy again!

The book was simple and easy to read. Anger is a problem for lots of children today. This is a great way to bring up the topic and discuss with them how to deal with their emotions
This would be a great children's book to read aloud in a classroom. You can discuss with the children what they would do when they get angry and what would make them feel better. I would highly recommend this book for K - 2 grade students

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Great 'emotions' book

I Feel Happy & Sad & Angry & Glad
Mary Elizabeth Murphy
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Bold colors and a sweet story help young readers explore emotions. Here's an appealing tale of two dogs, Milo and his friend, Ellie. In simple text and bright pictures, they run the gamut of intense emotions so familiar to the parents of young children--and to children themselves. From the joy of a game to jealousy over scooter rides, Milo and Ellie demonstrate that it's okay to have strong feelings. In the end, they are friends again, and everyone feels happy together.

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Great 'emotions' book.......2000-04-12

My daughter is 2 1/2 and has really found her emotions lately. This book is a cute and humorous way for young ones to understand that feeling mad (and sad, and happy...) is OK. The pictures are also fun and colorful to keep the wee-ones interested!

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Great book to introduce dealing with angry feelings

When Emily Woke Up Angry
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Great book to introduce dealing with angry feelings.......1998-05-08

When Emily Woke Up Angry is a great book that explores ways we can express our anger. Many children know when they feel angry but only know a few ways to express it. I shared this story as a flannel board story with a mixed age group of preschool children. After the story we tried out the different ways the animals expressed their anger. We then discussed what makes us feel better individually when we feel angry. Wonderful for exploring our feelings!

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Very good!

Angry Animals (Horrible Science)
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Very good!.......2007-06-12

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In my opinion, the best part of this book was that Terry Deary made the book into a sort of competition between animals. Which animal kills the most people and other fellow animals? This book contains facts and true stories about crocodiles, snakes, elephants, sharks, lions, etc. etc. And who turns out to be the winner of Most Savage Animal? Read and find out.

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The Wild Side: Angry Animals
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Bernard the angry rooster

Bernard The Angry Rooster
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Bernard, a proud, speckled rooster, takes his job of waking everybody up very seriously. And he's usually happy. But today he's been cross with the dog, the chickens, the pony, and even Lucy, who brings him food every day. What could be the matter? It turns out to be wounded pride: there's a new rooster weather vane on the farmhouse, and it's higher off the ground than Bernard's usual crowing perch. With a little help from his friends, Bernard sets things straight for his morning "Cock-a-doodle-doo."

Mary Wormell brings realistic childlike emotions to light in the simplest of words and through her bold and colorful linoleum-cut pictures.

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Bernard the angry rooster.......2001-05-20

Proud, hard-working Bernard suddenly becomes biting mad and no one knows why. The solution to the problem is discovered by accident, however, and from that day on Bernard was once again a hard-working, well-adjusted rooster. Charming, bold, "old-fashioned" illustrations.

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All the animals were angry
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The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali
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A REASONABLE REGARD OF A GREAT MAN OF OUR TIME

Best book written on Ali

What Does Ali Stand For Now?

The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali
Thomas Hauser
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Muhammad Ali has attained mythical stature in American life. But in recent years Ali has been subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to homogenize the electrifying nature of his persona. Thomas Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed, said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for ad agencies by sanitizing his legacy is a disservice to history and to Ali himself.

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A REASONABLE REGARD OF A GREAT MAN OF OUR TIME.......2006-09-21

With so many books droolingly digging up bones of our great American heroes (the income alone from the anti-Kennedy volumes would fill a bank) it is a refreshing relief to find one book which contemplates all sides of this great man, who only continues to grow in stature and power.

Why in Mr. Bush's anti-Islamic Empire must we ignore and "lose" our greatest and most humane American?

Instead of any other life assessment of Mr. Ali, please reflect upon this by Hauser, who wrote so well in His Life and His Times, considering deeply the inner life of this most public man. Now, years later, removed apparently from direct contact with his subject, Mr. Hauser fairly considers all aspects and opinions and addresses them as would Aristotle, or Aquinas. We have here perhaps the most comprehensive and reasoned report to date. Examine it closely.

Then hear Ossie Davis's reading of Soul of the Butterfly, and be revived, resurrected, refreed and ready to work for peace and for justice once more.

Best book written on Ali.......2006-06-21

This is, along with Hauser's biography of Ali, probably the best and "closest to the truth" book we have on the Greatest of All Time.

Hauser is an honest sports journalist who, although obviously enamored of his subject, never tries to hide the flaws of this internationally renowned and original personality. Indeed, more than cynical would-be writers like Mark Kram (whom Hauser addresses directly in this book), he has come to that place so many fans, writers and adoring celebrities never could: the actual Ali behind all that myth, bravado and unmatched boxing skill.

Through his exhaustively readable collection of quotations from not only Ali himself but sports figures like Reggie Jackson, Ernie Terrell, Angelo Dundee, Ron Lyle, Sylvester Stallone (and of course Joe Frazier), the confused but courageous core of the man then and now emerges.

What is revealed is a wildly exuberant, spiritual, sometimes volatile and sometimes serene man who himself could often not tell the difference between himself and the fictions created about him. His courageous refusal, at any cost, of being inducted into the draft to fight in Vietnam is juxtaposed with his readiness to do things like call Joe Louis an "Uncle Tom" and shoot off his mouth whenever he felt himself or his ego threatened.

For one of the toughest SOBs to ever live, Muhammad Ali had a very pronounced sensitive side, and his excessive showmanship and extreme bravery were often manifestations of a need to hide this side of himself. As a result, he made quite a few enemies. His uncritical allegiance to the Nation of Islam is also shown for what it was; a frenzied response of a black athlete to show white America that he was not afraid to adopt radical, dangerous positions and still kick butt in the ring.

The essentially religious side of Ali emerged in later life, and the obvious time out of Parkinsons ripped him away from the cameras to reflect on some of his more radical beliefs (apartheid). What people need to remember is that this is a guy who grew up in Louisville Kentucky when racism against blacks was it's height. That explains quite a bit about "the true nature of his beliefs".

An endlessly entertaining, superb book on the man seen through the eyes of others and himself by an insider.

What Does Ali Stand For Now?.......2005-10-23

Thomas Hauser wrote 'Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times' in 1991 and that work continues to be the definitive research piece, plus oral history, on the life of the greatest athlete of the last one hundred years and almost certainly longer.

Having edited 'GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali', I'm well aware of how important Hauser's landmark work has been in documenting, for the first time, much of the finer details around Ali's life and achievements, often with the direct evidence of the key figures around Ali over the key periods of his life. I'd urge any Ali, civil rights or black history student to start with that master work if you want to learn more about what made Cassius Clay and then Muhammad Ali, truly into the current day Ali.

During that mid-1990s period Hauser himself became, in the words of Sports Illustrated and Esquire writer, the late Mark Kram, the Boswell figure in the polishing of the Ali mythology, but from what one gathers, Hauser no longer has a direct working relationship with Muhammad Ali nor with those within Ali's immediate business and family circle. This pushes him away from the Ali epicentre, but also gives him the context and the opportunity to take a new, revisionist line on Ali, hence the basic theme of this new book.

Ali emerged at a time of the greatest political foment in modern American history. His outspoken willingness to talk of black pride from the early 1960s, his public conversion to Islam in February 1964 (privately, he converted as far back as 1961) and his unwillingness to step forward and be conscripted into the US Armed Forces in 1967, became the now iconic moments that put him at the very centre of black and left liberal counter-culture in the 1960s.

He won himself the support of leaders as diverse as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver and internationally, Kwame Nkrumah and Gamal Abdel Nasser invited him to their countries in 1964; members of the American political and media establishment like Ramsey Clark, William Buckley and James Schlesinger recognised the sincerity of his stance. The entertainment industry lionised him; writers like George Plimpton, Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer wrote about him; singers like Bob Dylan and later George Benson, sang about him; philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote to him to express his support for Ali's Vietnam stance; perhaps most poignantly of all, ensconced in a tiny cell on Robben Island from 1964 onwards, Nelson Mandela heard of Ali's exploits, quickly saw him as a genuine hero and noted this this was someone to watch and admire.

In short, Ali became the most potent and popular symbol of resistance to the Vietnam War and became the darling not just of the far left, but liberals and black emancipation movements everywhere.

Since then, Ali has (post-Parkinson's especially) become something altogether different: a symbol of peace (UN Messenger of Peace to be yet more specific), pure example of the fragility of the human condition and commercial uber-spokesperson for brands as diverse as Apple, Adidas, IBM, Gillette, Rockport, Wheaties and Coca Cola, much of this being the direct result of his appearance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the start of what can be considered to be the modern rebirth of the Ali mythology.

Fundamentally, Hauser pursues the view that Ali's position as a counter-culture icon has been superceded by his post-1980s role as global icon for peace and commercial spokesperson to anyone willing to write the appropriately-sized cheque (Ali's daily personal appearance fees apparently top $200,000) and overall, a one-size-fits-all symbol of peace, goodness and non-controversy in every regard.

As a result (so goes Hauser's theme), it's of greater import to Ali's circle that his political neutrality and commercial value is maintained because it's that very neutered state that keeps him acceptable to all and keeps the income rolling in.

Whilst some of Hauser's views are rooted in his typically journalistic and meticulously-researched style, the reality is that Ali has undergone the inevitable evolution that age brings to us all. He left the Nation of Islam in 1975 (at the death of Elijah Muhammad), converted formally to the softer Sunni Islam in 1982 and his evolution into political centrism can date from that point onwards. That change coincided with a willingness to lend his name to various humanitarian causes (like Amnesty International, with whom he worked in 1986) and his willingness to directly involve himself in specific political events, like the freeing of fifteen US 'human shield' hostages by Saddam Hussain in 1990.

As Ali has aged, he's recognised the error of some of his more extreme opinions (viz a vis the role of women, black separatism and black/white inter-relationship) and recognised, that peace and love have a far more powerful role to play in building bridges in modern society, than some of the very valid (then) but (now) polarising thinking of the 1960s.

That doesn't make Ali a figure of weaker importance or negate what he stood for. His extraordinary acts of integrity and boldness already stand for posterity. Ali's subsequent life trajectory simply suggest that he grew up and slipped elegantly into middle age, gained wider experiences from leading a spiritual life and recognised that the thinking that led to his actions in the 1960s was spot on for those times, but that as society in the US got more inclusive (albeit pretty slowly), that his opinions needed to shift to reflect that change.

In fact, far more than anyone could have predicted, Ali got bigger after the 1960s and his sporting triumphs of the 1970s and has now truly transcended sporting iconography, something that's unique for modern athletes (only Pele comes close as someone way bigger than the sport from which he emerged).

Whether one accepts it or not, the emergence of politically neutral black celebrities (epitomised by figures like Will Smith, Michael Jordan, Beyonce and Tiger Woods), reflects the opportunity to get to the top (and reap the huge financial rewards from that), through sheer excellence at one's craft alone.

Whether we accept it or not, race has a far smaller role to play in the ascendance of these modern figures since their success has come on their own terms in largely every case. They have no lack of sense of what they are, nor their racial heritage. Ali fought the fight to give modern celebrities and sports stars the opportunity to have a far easier ride and that's something that they all (at least the ones that I've met) truly recognise. That's a step forward and Ali's very human evolution alongside this is one to note positively, rather than to deconstruct.

We all grow up and Ali, more than anyone, has proved that he still has a role to play in society, forty years on from his greatest personal triumphs and now at a time of such conflict between his chosen religion and culture and that of others. That's surely something to celebrate and note as something to for all of us to gain from.

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