Review: A fun book with an important lesson
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
Anat Umansky, author of over 100 children's books, writes warm, clever, engaging books for children that have colorful illustrations. Sweet Geraldine lives in a safari with other animals in Kenya. The tiger laughs at her because she cries all the time over almost everything that happens to her, even little things. She cries so much that she makes a puddle of tears in which her best friend in the world Croakette the toad finds a home. Beside the tiger and toad, we meet Doris the deer, Humphrey the hippo, and Jeffrey the giraffe. We read how they are affected by Geraldine's tears and the solution Croakette teaches her.This book is a fun way to teach kids how to deal with their emotions, how to be satisfied and have fun. Every page of her splendid book includes funny poems that are part of the story, poems that will fascinate children and may prompt them to create poems of their own.