made by eugene huo on Sep 23, 2008

Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker, we've enjoyed a lot. Also in the …

Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker, we've enjoyed a lot. Also in the series, The Talented Clementine.

Clementine is a young grade school girl who would fit the profile of a "Spirited Child". Clementine is at turns brilliant, artistic, a daydreamer, thoughtful, sometimes awkward, opinionated, caring and quirky. One of the great elements of the story is Clementine's own description of her feelings and emotions, and how she is able to know what to do when she begins to feel a certain way. Sometimes children have a hard time knowing what to do when they get angry, or overanxious, and Pennypacker has done a good job of writing emotions in a language kids can relate to.

I would recommend it for Grades 1 and up, it's not really a toddlers kind of story, it's a "chapter book", as my kids say.