My Big Shouting Day

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The trouble with Bella, the main character in My Big Shouting Day is that she is, as Jess and Thomas say, just too shouty. Once her own children had started school, Rebecca began an MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art and had her first picture books commissioned at the end of the course.

But it isn't until the last page that Bella's mother makes any attempt to help her work through her feelings, while at the same time being implausibly patient.Bella is having one of those days - her biscuit is broken, she has a hurting foot and ballet is TOOOO itchy for words.

The message seems to be that we all have our off days, but that's OK, because tomorrow it will all be better. Some of the best children's literature has been written about characters who are less than perfectly behaved. This hilarious rhyming book by Kes Gray and illustrated by Garry Parsons is a brilliantly silly one to share, especially at bedtime in the run up to Christmas. Funny and well-observed, with big bold illustrations and telling facial expressions, My Big Shouting Day is ideal for classroom use. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.It has become iconic for us, and so helpful for helping toddlers/pre-schoolers and those that encounter them, understand that we all have ‘big shouting days’ sometimes, and that’s ok. Bought for a shouty 3 year old, who laughed as he realised that is exactly what he was like, so we turned a shouty day into a laughing day instead.