When Sadness is at Your Door

Pre-K - Grade 2: “Sometimes sadness arrives unexpectedly," is the opening sentence of this book. Simple illustrations depict Sadness as a large blue squishy that shows up on a child’s doorstep, takes up a bunch of space, and follows the child around. There are gentle suggestions about how to help a child deal with this feeling: give it a name; ask where it comes from and what it needs; draw some pictures; take it for a walk. This book embraces sadness (literally, when the child gives Sadness a hug) as readers are encouraged not to fear this emotion, but instead, get to know it a bit. “Maybe all [Sadness] wants is to know is that it is welcome.”