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What Are You So Grumpy About? - by Tom Lichtenheld (Paperback)

What Are You So Grumpy About? - by  Tom Lichtenheld (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Lichtenheld takes all the tiny (and not so tiny) things that can be annoying and makes them funny instead, with colorful laugh-out-loud images full of fantastic details and a surprise ending. Full color.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Any parent of a small child knows that the best cure for a youngster's bad temper is to redirect his or her attention toward something humorous. Lichtenheld demonstrates just how this works in a collection of large, double-spread cartoons depicting a variety of situations that might cause a rotten mood...Lichtenheld's big, bold, broadly comic art style...is well suited to the tone of the text and has solid child appeal. Give this one to grumpy kids, or to anyone in need of cheering up." -Booklist<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>A Child Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year</b><br>--<b><i>-</b></i><br><br>"Guaranteed to remove every pout in sight...replete with jokes both visual and verbal, each picture will elicit roars of laughter--and rueful recognition."--<b><i>Kirkus (starred review)</b></i><br><br>"Hilarious...sure to cure the grumpiest reader..."--<b><i>Child Magazine</b></i><br><br>"Lichtenheld's tale will appeal to kids with its on-target childhood humiliations and degradations."--<b><i>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Tom Lichtenheld </b>is an art director at Cramer-Krasselt, an international advertising agency. He has written four other children's books, including Everything <i>I Know About Pirates</i>, <i>Everything I Know About Monsters</i>, <i>Everything I Know About Cars</i> (Simon & Schuster), and our topselling frontlist picture book of 2003, <i>What Are You So Grumpy About?</i>.

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