About this item
A young girl is upset and doesn't know how to manage her anger but takes the time to cool off and regain her composure.
About the Author
Molly Bang is an award winning children's book illustrator and author. Her works include 3 Caldecott Honor Books: Ten, Nine, Eight, The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, which also won a Jane Addams Honor Award and the Arbuthnot Award. The Paper Crane won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award in 1987; Goose won the School of Library Journal Best Book of 1996 and another work, Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share, won the prestigious Giverny Book Award in 1998 for the best children's science picture book. Her latest book, My Light, is an ALA Notable book. Her only work for adults is Picture This, which shows how an understanding of the most basic principles enable a person to build powerful pictures. It is used by art and graphic departments in colleges around the country. Bang received her bachelor degree from Wellesley in French, and Masters in Far Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona and at Harvard. She has also worked as a reporter; as an educator for public health projects in Bangladesh and in Mali, West Africa, incorporating information on maternal and child health into stories; and as a teacher in colleges.
