When Emily Brown and her sidekick Stanley the Rabbit find a lonely teddy bear, you might think they’re all in for some fun. But no! The teddy bear is in a terrible mood, and nothing seems to cheer her up. They try taking her to Australia. They try painting merry sunflowers. But a gloomy black rain cloud follows the teddy all around, and she sings a sad little song to herself all day long. After a while, Emily and Stanley start to feel miserable too. This has to stop! Emily Brown has had enough!

A hilarious picture book exploring moods and emotions

By the best-loved author of How to Train Your Dragon

Helps children talk about self-care and emotional health

With quirky, witty pictures and an upbeat happy ending

“Will both delight fans, and give them something to reflect on. Layton’s illustrations are a joy, matching the text perfectly.” Bookseller

“Just the right mix of whimsy and humour and firmly on the right side of cuteness… A delight.” Peters Gazette

Product Details

Catalogue number

6068 in ROW Export Catalogue 2019 and 6068 in ROW Primary Rewards Catalogue 2018/19

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781444923421

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Date published

June 7th, 2018

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

How Do You Feel? Pack x 10

usd prices

Price: $101.36

gbp prices

Price: £69.90

Author/Illustrator

Cressida Cowell

Cressida grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. The island had no roads, houses or electricity. For the first four years, the family would be dropped off like castaways on the island by a local boatman and picked up again two weeks later. Imagine being like Robinson Crusoe and having a whole island to yourself to explore…

By the time Cressida was eight, the family had built a small stone house on the island, so they no longer had to camp out in tents, which made life much drier. Her father got a boat, so they could fish for enough food to feed the family for the whole summer.

Every year, Cressida spent the long summer holiday, and some of the spring, on the island. The house was lit by candle-light, and there was no electricity, telephone or television, so Cressida and the family lived like people in the olden days. In the evening, Cressida’s father told the children old Scottish tales about the people who lived on the islands round about, who were always fighting and tricking each other, and about dragons living in caves in the cliffs.

Cressida spent her time writing stories, fishing for things to eat, and exploring the island looking for these dragons. These childhood experiences (quite apart from her fluency in Old Norse, of course), made her delighted to be approached to translate the Hiccup memoirs…

After leaving school Cressida studied English at university, and then got degrees in graphic design and illustration at art college. For her final project at art school she created a childrens’ book called Little Bo Peep’s Library Book and was lucky enough to have that book published in 1998. She has gone on to write ten more picture books, including the popular Emily Brown stories, which won the Nestle Childrens’ Book Prize in 2006.

In 2002 she began to write a book for older children. Remembering the stories she had written on the island as a child, these ideas became the book How to Train Your Dragon. There are now nine books in the Hiccup series, and a DreamWorks Animation film of How to Train Y0ur Dragon came out in 2010!

Cressida lives in London with her husband, three children and a hamster.