When Sophie gets angry--Really, Really Angry...

Title: When Sophie gets angry--- Really, really angry…    

Author: Molly Bang

Illustrator: Molly Bang  

Date of publication: 1999

Publishing Company: Blue Sky Press

Awards: Caldecott Honor award winner (2000)

Genre: Fiction

Subgenre: Realism

Theme: Anger Management. Many people control their anger in different ways.

Primary Characters: Sophie

Secondary characters: her sister

Classroom Use: I would use this book when talking about the emotion, anger, and the different ways that one can control/handle their anger.

Summary: The book is about a little girl named Sophie who gets really, really angry when she has too share with her sister. In this case, Sophie controls her anger by climbing into a tree to calm down. Everyone gets angry about different things and everyone controls and handles their anger in different ways also.