But perhaps that is the problem. My children don't empathise with Bella not because they haven't had tantrums – believe me, they have – but because it's all just a little too realistic, without any humour thrown in for good measure. The fact that it's written in the first person doesn't help.

urn:oclc:record:1349250442 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mybigshoutingday0000patt Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2dctkgzzr5 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781780080062 Perhaps I'm being too harsh on My Big Shouting Day. It's an OK-ish kind of book, and Rebecca Patterson is a talented illustrator. But it really didn't do anything for any of us. The trouble with Bella, the main character in My Big Shouting Day is that she is, as Jess and Thomas say, just too shouty. Displaying the full force of toddler hormones, she refuses to eat her breakfast egg, throws off her shoes, yells in the supermarket, and lies down in the pavement, refusing to move. We've all been there.

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So if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find a book that's… well, a bit less shouty. I feel a toddler tantrum coming on if I don't. Nothing," says Jess. "Nothing," echoes Thomas. Oscar just presses The Very Hungry Caterpillar into my hand, and demands that I read it. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-09-29 08:01:01 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40716018 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Some of the best children's literature has been written about characters who are less than perfectly behaved. Feisty, but above all funny, these are characters that children can empathise with. Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000443 Openlibrary_edition