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Title: Good teaching tool
Review: I get all the gripes about this book, especially the unsafe behavior of running off. However, I love that it gives children the idea that they are capable of controlling their anger by exercising and finding a happy place to calm down. No, I do not want my almost 3 year old to go running off to hide up in a tree, but I can use the book to tell her why that is unsafe. Books are meant to be open to interpretation. When Sophie roars and blows the room to smithereens that is fantasy, an exaggeration, so I have to explain that is just make believe, an illustration. Same with the running off. It's given me the idea to help my DD find her own safe, happy spot to calm herself.Also? That my nearly nearly 3 year old LOVES this book. Something in it must speak to her, because it's a favorite library book, that we are now purchasing.
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