Sophie is playing with her stuffed gorilla when her sister takes it from her, knocking her to the floor. When their mother agrees that it is her sister's turn to play with the toy, Sophie becomes so angry that "She wants to smash the world to smithereens." She kicks, screams, and eventually runs into the woods where she climbs a huge beech tree, looks out over the water, and is comforted by the "wide world." Observing the word she becomes calm. She returns home ready to participate in family life.
I enjoy reading this book to my students. We discuss that there are going to be times in life when we all become angry and we have to learn how to “deal” with it! We discuss how Sophie deals with being angry and then the students have the opportunity to discuss appropriate behaviors they can do when they get upset.
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