Riley Can't Stop Crying

by Stéphanie Boulay

Other authorsAgathe Bray-Bourret (Illustrator), Charles Simard (Translator)

Hardcover, 2021

Status

Available

Call number

JP BOU

Call number

JP BOU

Collection

General Collection - Junior Picture

Description

Juvenile Fictio Juvenile Literatur HTML:�??"Insightfully emotional...A poignant, purposeful depiction of a family learning to recognize, confront, and heal internal struggles with self-love and self-worth. Children in need of encouragement will find comforting revelations about the value of individuality."&#8212School Library Journal, starred review Riley is inconsolable. He can't stop crying and nothing is making him feel better. His sister, Regina, tries her best to help him figure out what's wrong, but four-year-old Riley isn't sure. It's not his tummy, or his head, or the monsters under the bed. Regina and their dad try everything they can to make Riley smile, but nothing works until one day Regina has an idea. Maybe it's Riley that is making Riley upset. Regina knows what it feels like to be uncomfortable in her body, but she also knows that she's pretty amazing and really good at a lot of things. So how can she help Riley see that he's pretty amazing and really good at a lot of things? A charming story about a child's search for his true self under the compassionate eye of his olde… (more)

Genres

Children's Books

Fiction

Publication

Orca Book Publishers (2021), Edition: Illustrated, 80 pages

Original language

French

Language

English

User reviews

LibraryThing member LibrarianRyan

I believe this book sets a new standard on what books about being yourself entail. Riley comes from a loving family of a sister and a father. Mom is not in the picture, no reason given. Riley’s sister does everything she can to make Riley stop crying or to come to reason for the tears. Turns out

Riley, doesn’t like Riley. What makes this book so successful is that it does not just focus on Riley. Sister gets teased in school for her round belly, and after discovering what it feels like to not like herself she understands more what Riley is going through. And with understanding from their father they start to like and make themselves happy being who they are, but understanding there will still be down days, or others who don’t understand. This book was fantastic. It was a great lesson and a great story. The illustrations work really well and set a tone of hope, love, and understanding.

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LibraryThing member Salsabrarian

Regina's four-year-old brother Riley cries all the time, and she and their father can't understand why. Regina works on figuring out what is bothering Riley and eventually finds a way to help Riley express his full self. Lines: "It's not what your body looks like that's important, it's how you take

care of it. And it takes care of you by letting you do what you love to do..." and "...we can express some of ourselves on the outside, but there will always be complicated things inside ourselves that we don't know how to show."

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