Not Fair, Won't Share: A book about sharing (Our Emotions and Behavior) - Hardcover

Sue Graves is a former teacher and a published author. She writes fiction and nonfiction for children from preschool to high school. Sue is married and has four children and two grandchildren. She loves playing golf, painting watercolors, and walking in the countryside around her home in England.

Desideria Guicciardini was born in Florence, Italy. She illustrated her first children's book in 1977 and likes illustrating stories set in the past or in fantastic make-believe worlds. She lives in Milan, Italy, with her husband and two sons.

“Colorful cartoon drawings portray the full representation of hurting and healing.”—School Library Journal

“Exuberant color illustrations bring to life simple stories about ordinary children interacting with their friends at school or at play. . . .The Our Emotions and Behavior series is enthusiastically recommended for parents as well as school and library children’s collections.”—Midwest Book Review

Not Fair, Won’t Share

Midwest Book Review: Children’s Bookwatch: September 2011

“Not Fair, Won’t Share” is a picture book from a series titled Our Emotions and Behavior which helps young children understand their feelings and emotions. Written especially for children between the ages of 4 and 8, “Not Fair Won’t Share” presents a typical classroom dilemma when Nora won’t take turns with other children in the school’s Space Station. Everyone including the teacher, Miss Clover, gets mad! Then they all take a deep breath, spend some time in other quiet pursuits safely, calm down, say “I’m sorry!” and learn to try having fun while sharing fairly. Pictures at the book’s end allow children to tell stories about the process of learning to share. Additional notes to adults about how to use the book with children provide other learning games and discussion ideas. The spunky, colorful illustrations make the story’s impact vivid and positive for children. Additional recommended titles in this series by the same authors includes “But Why Can’t I?”, “I’m Not Happy”, and “Who Feels Scared?”.

“Titles in the series capture the big emotions that all kids feel. The stories are perfect for young readers.”—Imagination Soup

“The books would be helpful for teaching children [the concepts of rules, sharing, fears, and sadness] as well as beginning a dialogue with children about them. Teachers and school counselors will want to consider adding these to their library as they will undoubtedly be a good resource in classrooms.”—Chris Singer, BookDads.com

“The Our Emotions and Behavior series offer[s] young children and their caregivers help with hard-to-manage feelings and inappropriate actions . . . The simple texts are direct, and the endings are consistently upbeat . . . These purposeful books will be useful in many libraries.”—Booklist