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Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him.

"Pete the Cat wakes up feeling grumpy--nothing seems to be going his way. But with the help of some magic sunglasses, Pete learns that a good mood has been inside him all along"--

The first in an epic two-book saga, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters as each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world. "Ambitious, strong-willed Marta Schneider leaves her home in rural Switzerland at the beginning of the 20th century. She's determined to flee her abusive father, loving but weak mother, and...

Pigeon experiences an emotional loop-de-loop as he anticipates his turn to ride the roller coster.

Rhymed text describes the behaviors of the emotional, googly-eyed dinosaurs Angry-saurus, Fretful-saurus, Cry-ceratops, Terror-dactyl and Glee-rex. Die-cut pages allow each dinosaur's eyes to protrude from the page.