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Grump Groan Growl Hardcover – Bargain Price, April 8, 2008

by Bell Hooks (Author), Chris Raschka (Illustrator)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
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GRUMP GROAN GROWLBad mood on the prowl Some days the grumpies just take over. So don't let that anger build up--embrace your feelings, overcome your aggression, and be your best self. In other words: Just let those feelings beJust let them passJust go insideAnd let it slide bell hooks honest text radiates positivity while Chris Raschka's dynamic art adds humor to a book that is perfect for all ages.
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    April 8, 2008
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    10.63 x 9.22 x 0.4 inches
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003156C0S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hyperion Book CH (April 8, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.63 x 9.22 x 0.4 inches
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bell hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is now a Distinguished Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of more than seventeen books, including All About Love: New Visions; Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. She lives in New York City.

Photo by Alex Lozupone (Tduk) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Kristen Estell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great message
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2023
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Great message, great art
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S. Kleinman-Dominguez
5.0 out of 5 stars Great themed storytime read-aloud
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2008
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Pair with "Alexander and the horrible...", "My many colored days", & "Sometimes I'm Bombaloo".

Sometimes kids have their cranky pants on, and it's OK to feel that way, but not so OK to act on it. They need to figure out how to acknowledge their growly moods and independently conquer them. These books help.
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V in Eugene
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun way to experience "negative" emotions
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2012
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Sweet little book. Deeply evocative illustrations. Nice way to begin the conversations that are otherwise difficult with a youngster. Definitely not your typical bell hooks.
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S.M.
5.0 out of 5 stars My 3 y.o. LOVES this book, it speaks to all ages. Easy reader, too!
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2010
Great for any kid who has ever felt angry!

Let me preface by saying that we were already hooked on Chris Raschka's book  Yo! Yes? (Scholastic Bookshelf)  in which he is able to express an awful lot content in very few simple, small words. Similar idea here - bell hooks's poem "Grump, Groan, Growl" is a simple poem describing how anger feels, and it's easy enough for a toddler to understand, but she doesn't talk down to the reader or try to moralize about appropriate behavior. It's modern poetry and it captures a universal emotion (and how to control and redirect it) quite eloquently.

In remarkably few words, bell hooks (yeah, that's a person's name, even though there's no capital letters and both names are nouns for everyday objects - it threw me, too - maybe it's a poet thing. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah!) bell hooks expresses the need to embrace, not squelch, powerful emotions, but also not allow them to control you. Passionate intensity is a *good* thing, if one learns how to modulate and control it. It's a fairly powerful idea, really, that of accepting powerful emotions as valid, allowing ourselves to feel them, yet not letting them overwhelm and emotionally flood us. Don't suppress the emotions, learn to master your response to them so they don't control you.

There are many ways to "let those feelings be. Just let them pass. Just go inside. And let it slide" -- learning to handle intense emotions gracefully (rather than by lashing out) is a pretty useful skill at any age. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that bell hook's didn't necessarily have kids in mind when she wrote this. The poem itself would be equally appropriate on the first slide of a corporate power point presentation on "Anger Management" as it would as a book in the waiting room of a child (or adult's) psychologist's office, or as a conversation starter in a philosophy or inter-personal communications class, or on the bookshelf of a cognitive scientist, or (in this particular book with Raschka's art) in any preschool or kindergarten room. How cool is that?

Now, about Chris Raschka's part. I picked up this book because I so thoroughly enjoyed his earlier book "Yo! Yes?" which is written in huge letters, frequently with just one or two words per page. (Brevity is the soul of wit.) Like hooks in this book, he expresses a great deal with remarkably few simple words, so both are great early reader books, although they aren't advertised as such. The words are no more complex than what you find in many very early reader books, the most complicated words being ones with silent "e" like "inside" "outside" and "slide" - and maybe "groan" because you don't pronounce the "a". (The text in "Yo! Yes?" is even easier - it's a GREAT first book for a beginning reader.) If you think you're going to lose your mind if you have to suffer through one more insipid book about a dog and a frog on a log or a cat named Matt, this is for you.

Other reviewers commented that the pictures are "ugly" and unappealing. Well, yeah, I think that was kind of the *point* guys - to visually express the feeling of being somewhat out of control. Didn't we get past the bit about all art having to be "more beautiful than real life" about a hundred years ago? C'mon! True, the illustrations in this book don't look like Jan Brett's or even Maurice Sendak's. I like both of them, too, but this is different - it's SUPPOSED to be different. (For that matter, "Where the Wild Things Are," although quite wonderful, does scare pants off some little kids.)

This book isn't just "well-intentioned," it's very well-executed, too, IMHO.
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Tammy Wiens
4.0 out of 5 stars Grumping and growling is good for grown ups too.
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2011
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Grump, Groan, Growl is a beautifully illustrated book and a freeing book for expressing one's emotions. The colors communicate the feelings. I gave it as a gift to a four-year-old, but I think the book seemed a little scary to him. I do think, however, that he could identify with the feelings. The child's mom is a big fan of bell hooks so the book was a gift to her as well as to him!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not kindle friendly
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2020
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It was super big and I couldn’t change it on my device. Useless to me. I would recommend getting the actual book.
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Tasha Saecker
4.0 out of 5 stars Mindfulness for Little Ones
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017
Explore a bad mood in this picture book that takes a look at being very very grumpy. The child in the opening images prowls like a lion, sharp claws at the ready as he grumps across the page. He groans and growls loudly, almost a roar. There is nowhere to escape his foul mood. He feels wild and out of control until he realizes that he can look inside, let that feeling be and let it pass. Hooks speaks to the process of mindfulness about emotions with few words, showing the emotion clearly and then moving into the process to allow that emotion to pass on. Raschka’s illustrations are dark with emotion, tinged with colors that become more tangible as the child regains control. A great pick for mindfulness with children, this book doesn’t reject negative emotions or cling to them either.
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fngrpntr
3.0 out of 5 stars So so
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018
First half of book is good but 2nd half--the happy half--is too quick & could have used more time for "processing." Also could have used cheerier colors for the happy section. All the black still looks angry.
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Garrett Family
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for children of all abilities
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2010
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I bought this for my eldest who has a communication disorder, and the simple language and amazing artwork soon became a family favourite as well as a great example on dealing with emotions, even without words. I think it would be great for all children (and adults) while they're working on how to handle rougher emotions like anger and frusteration.
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