When I feel Angry

Title: "When I feel Angry"

Author: Cornelia Maude Spelman

Illustrated by: Nancy Cote 

Reading level: 4-8

Paperback: 24 pages 

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (January 1, 2000) 

Language: English 

ISBN-10: 9780807588970

This story is about a little bunny that talks about what makes him feel angry. "When somebody makes fun of me, I feel angry." "If the teacher says I was talking and I wasn't, I get angry. It isn't fair." The story goes on to tell us all about the ways that make people angry. Then it goes on to tell us how the little bunny deals with his anger. He tells us that at time he wants to hit, yell, or be mean to others. He is learning to deal with his angry by taking a deep breath, walking away, or closing his eyes and count to ten. Then at the end of the story the little bunny tells us that when he feels angry he knows what he must do to change the way he is feeling. 

This story is a great one! Its teaching us how to deal with out angry feelings. A lot of children get angry and will hit their friends or be mean to them. This story takes us through the ideas of what makes us angry, how we can deal with out angry in a bad way, and then it talks about what we should really do when we feel angry. The author is trying to teach us that being angry is a feeling we all go through, but as children we need to learn how to deal with out angry in a way that wont hurt anyone or ourselves. The characters in the story are animals so its a easy book to talk to children about and get them thinking about how they feel when they are angry and what they do to solve the problem. The literacy elements in the story are allegory and personification. The allegory in the story is to teach us something and help us better understand something. In this story the allegory is about how to deal with our angry. What we should so and how we should act when we have those feelings. The personification is in the whole story because the characters in the story are animals that walk, talk, push babies in strollers, and play at the park. The images in the story are great. Full of color, expression, but are simple. Each pictures offers its own build to the story. With out the pictures the story would not come off the way the author wants it to. Using bunnies as the characters should us that we all deal with the feeling of angry no matter who you are. A mini-lesson I would do with this story is to do a picture walk through the story, make connections with the text and pictures, and then talk about what makes each of use angry and how we deal with that angry. I would want the children to draw and write out how they feel when they get angry and what makes them angry.