Most Popular Books by Molly Bang

Molly Bang''s brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang''s powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold? First published in 1991, Picture This has changed the way artists, illustrators, reviewers, critics, and readers look at and understand art.

In a sequel to her bestselling When Sophie Gets Angry..., Caldecott Honor Illustrator Molly Bang asks: What hurts your feelings, and what do you do about it? Everyone''s feelings get hurt, and it''s especially painful in childhood. In this story, Bang''s popular character Sophie is hurt when the other children laugh at her and tell her she''s wrong. Sophie''s face gets hot, and tears begin to flow. Then she questions herself and the value of the choices she''s made.At issue is Sophie''s colorful, expressive painting of her favorite tree. Sophie loves it, but her picture is different from the paintings done by the other students. "The sky isn''t orange! Trees aren''t blue! Your picture is wrong!" they tell her.In addition to the book''s subtle art lesson (imagine the skies of Vincent van Gogh, for example), readers have the opportunity to compare and contrast all the paintings done in Sophie''s class. In the end, the students learn there are many different ways to interpret the world -- and each other. Here is a simple story that tackles the common issue of hurt feelings as it gently helps us to be more kind.

Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Molly Bang''s award-winning book helps children and parents better understand anger. Everybody gets angry sometimes. And for children, anger can be very upsetting and frightening. In this Caldecott Honor book, children will see what Sophie does when she gets angry. Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it. People do lots of different things when they get angry. What do you do?

Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world''s environment safely.

Being away from one''s parent can create feelings of insecurity for any young child. But even when they are apart, parents and children can share a special connection. Told from the parent''s point of view, In My Heart shows that, no matter where the parent is--or where the child is--the child is always in the parent''s heart. A warm, simple, reassuring story, In My Heart is the perfect read-aloud for a parent before leaving for work in the morning or before tucking a child in at night.

Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.

Three-time Caldecott Honor illustrator Molly Bang helps children solve problems by showing a different -- and highly effective -- approach: "I can''t do it" becomes "I can''t do it... yet." When Sophie can''t solve a math puzzle, she feels upset and inadequate. "I CAN''T DO IT!" she shouts, expressing the frustration all of us feel when we try and fail. Will she ever be "smart" like her sister? Maybe she isn''t smart at all.Luckily Sophie''s teacher steps in. What does it mean to be smart? Using current, popular "mindset" techniques, Sophie''s class is taught that we get smarter when we exercise our brains, such as when we work harder at solving a puzzle. Struggling to solve a problem doesn''t mean "I can''t do it!" Sophie and her classmates just can''t do it... yet! Readers will cheer when Sophie finally prevails, and at the end of the day, she''s confident and optimistic. At home, Sophie uses her new technique to help her dad solve a carpentry puzzle.In this third book about Sophie, Molly Bang again helps children deal with a challenging everyday issue, providing an opening to ask: What do you do when you think, "I can''t!"?

In this adaptation of a Southern folktale, a young Bayou boy plays David to aGoliath of a scary creature who threatens all who come to his swampy home.

"The Wily woman eludes the thief and then leads him into an eerie swamp where this curious adventure takes a surprising and laughable turn".--Publishers Weekly. A Caldecott Honor Book. An ALA Notable Children''s Book. A Booklist Editors'' Choice. Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

After eleven-year-old Lupe is partially paralyzed in an accident in her Mexican village, other handicapped people help her realize that her life can still have purpose.

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This nonfiction picture book tells the story of Diane Wilson, an independent shrimper in Texas who learns that chemical plants in Texas give out more pollution than in any other state. Diane lobbies, protests, writes letters, and never gives up to stop them. Based on real events. Full-color illustrations.

A shipbuilder tells his daughter Dawn how he once nursed a Canada goose with a broken wing, and how soon thereafter the young woman who would become his wife and Dawn''s mother came to help him make sails.

En este libro ilustrado para niños, la niña Sofía se enoja demasiado. Sale corriendo y se trepa a su árbol favorito hasta que se calma.

When a little girl who lives with her animal friends learns that Gram has sent her a present, she eagerly runs to the post office to find out what it is.

The Mali Rural Health Project was designed as a model effort within the US foreign aid programme for extending rudimentary health services in rural areas of developing nations. Although some success was achieved, the programme proved to be too costly for nation-wide implementation, thus failing to achieve its immediate goals. The authors'' assessmen

Acclaimed Caldecott Artist Molly Bang teams up with award-winning M.I.T. professor Penny Chisholm to present the fascinating, timely story of fossil fuels. What are fossil fuels, and how did they come to exist? This engaging, stunning book explains how coal, oil, and gas are really "buried sunlight," trapped beneath the surface of our planet for millions and millions of years.Now, in a very short time, we are digging them up and burning them, changing the carbon balance of our planet''s air and water. What does this mean, and what should we do about it?

Three-time Caldecott Honor Artist Molly Bang and National Science Award-winning professor Penny Chisholm present a stunning, accessible explanation of the Earth''s water cycle and its global effects. With stunning artwork and compelling scientific explanation, Bang and Chisholm have brought forth a masterpiece that is critically relevant in this environmentally tumultuous time. How does the sun keep ocean currents moving and lift fresh water from the seas? What can we do to conserve one of our planet''s most precious resources? In this newest book in the award-winning Sunlight Series, readers learn about the constant movement of water as it flows around the Earth. As the water changes between liquid, vapor, and ice, Sunlight powers all living things, ensuring that life can exist on Earth.Perfect for any reader--young or old!--this is an invaluable addition to all classrooms, libraries, and at-home collections.

Catch. Throw. Uh-oh. The yellow ball is forgotten at the edge of the water. Little by little, so no one notices, the ball floats out to sea. All alone, it travels above the fish and below the gulls, and drifts into a storm. Tossed by waves all through the night, it sails ashore next day to a hug and a home. Molly Bang''s luminous pastels and gentle, rhythmic text tell a story that is both exciting and reassuring. Together, pictures and text are at once a lyrical adventure and an invitation to beach lovers and ocean gazers to journey far from shore and explore the wide-open sea. This well-loved classic returns in a 25th Anniversary Edition which will continue to delight children for another twenty-five years.

Explores how phytoplankton, gives life to the ocean and the Earth.

Traditional Chinese edition of WHEN SOPHIE''S FELLINGS ARE REALLY REALLY HURT

A collection of children''s books on Teddy Bears.

A young girl Feifei is upset and doesn''t know how to manage her anger but takes the time to cool off and regain her composure.

Numbers from one to ten are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.