Sad, Mad, Glad: A Day Full of Feelings
May 2026 · Penguin
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32
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About this ebook
Explore the wide breadth of emotions that kids encounter every day in this gentle rhyming picture book about feelings, friends, and sibling bonds. Includes an educator afterword to delve into social-emotional learning connections.
It's a drizzly, damp, dull Sunday.
Nothing to do or see.
I'm feeling BORED. I need someone
To come and play with me.
And that's just the first of many feelings a young boy experiences on this day. From being GLAD about his friends eventually coming over to play, to getting MAD when little sister Kate gets in the way, our main character feels a whole spectrum of emotions over the course of one day!
It's a drizzly, damp, dull Sunday.
Nothing to do or see.
I'm feeling BORED. I need someone
To come and play with me.
And that's just the first of many feelings a young boy experiences on this day. From being GLAD about his friends eventually coming over to play, to getting MAD when little sister Kate gets in the way, our main character feels a whole spectrum of emotions over the course of one day!
About the author
John Micklos Jr. is the author of more than sixty children's books. He's written picture books, poetry books, and nonfiction books spanning a variety of topics and age ranges. His previous Penguin books, One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count with Me! and Raindrops to Rainbow, were both selections in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
Lilibeth M. Jimenez is a Mexican American artist. She graduated from Cogswell College with a BA in digital art and animation, with a focus on entertainment design. She is a children's book author-illustrator and a background painter in animation. Lilibeth was born and raised in the Central Valley surrounded by the sunny agricultural fields of California. Growing up as the youngest of five in an immigrant household, family has always been very important to her and has become a huge focus of her work. She loves to illustrate colorful stories with whimsical settings that showcase the fun memories of childhood and tender moments between family.
Lilibeth M. Jimenez is a Mexican American artist. She graduated from Cogswell College with a BA in digital art and animation, with a focus on entertainment design. She is a children's book author-illustrator and a background painter in animation. Lilibeth was born and raised in the Central Valley surrounded by the sunny agricultural fields of California. Growing up as the youngest of five in an immigrant household, family has always been very important to her and has become a huge focus of her work. She loves to illustrate colorful stories with whimsical settings that showcase the fun memories of childhood and tender moments between family.
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