Handling Your Ups and Downs

by Joy Wilt, Ernie Hergenroeder (Illustrator)

Discusses emotions and suggests ways to handle the comfortable and uncomfortable feelings everyone periodically has.

Genres: Childrens

128 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1978

Reviews

[Sarah]

This is another great book by Joy Wilt published in 1979. It's a book for children explaining to them about handling their emotions. The book is broken down into three chapters:

1 - Feeling Up (Comfortable Feelings)
2 - Feeling Down (Uncomfortable Feelings)
3 - Handling Your Downs
4 - Conclusion

I think the author deals with explaining emotions in a clear and interesting manner. The illustrations are dated, but they better help the reader to understand what is being discussed. The book is a bit lengthy, because she delves into every type of up and down emotion. It's a bit tedious in that way, but an interesting aspect is that at the end of each emotion there is a little questionnaire that children can fill out to assess their own experience with that particular emotion. My 7-year-old wasn't interesting in this part, but an older child might be.

Over all, it's a good book with a poignant and useful message. There are more modern books that have been written, but if you come across this book at a thrift store like I did, it's worth a look.

[Ami]

A good primer for emotions, although the illustrations for what you were *supposed* to do were not always great (anger can motivate you do do the right thing--like steal back the candy that had been stolen from you!). Sometimes I read juvenile nonfiction because it is quick & easy & provides a good foundation, and explains things in that pared down way that helps me GET it. This would have done that when I was younger, but for now, it didn't help in quite the way I hoped. Maybe a little. But when they said it was for ages 4-8, they meant it.

[April]

Such a great book for kids and adults to read together!! Joy Berry has a wonderful way of bringing things to a kids level to help them understand things better. Sometimes as an adult we forget kids see and process the world differently than us.

Beautifully illustrated to help kids pay attention while learning valuable life lessons!

This series is wonderful for any home or classroom! I want them for he community center where I work!! I am also thrilled they are being made available as ebooks!!

[Blake Nemec]

if you like to edit-remake-reshape books: this is the ONE! the general language & pictures are great, but you can queer it up with a mere constanant switch sometimes. good anti-depressant.