Each year my family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books, and we have been doing this for years. Everyone rates each book and adds a comment and it may (or may not) affect my overall rating. This is book #6 of 2018. This is rare this year in that we all agree on the rating! Whoa!
Lyra (11): 4 stars. You don't have to say anything to mean a lot. Just listen.
Hank (12): 4 stars! . . . [Hank here is not saying anything and just listening to the book.]
Harry (13): 4 stars. It shows that sometimes what a person needs most is for someone just to listen.
Penn (family friend): 4.5 stars. I love the concept: There are many options available to you when things fall apart in our lives and we get to choose what is best and most authentic for us even though others may offer solutions/responses that are useful for them. Listening in this book seems actually like a secondary idea.
Tara: 4 stars. Don't push kids to feel a certain way, or to "just get over it," but let them work it out on their own. A good message.
Dave: 4 stars. Asserts the importance of listening to kids (which reminds me of a seventies book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, which gives the same advice to a man to try not solve a problem that a woman shares with him. Shut up and just listen sometimes, man! {i'm trying to learn this. . .]