The Best Bad Day Ever
Marianna Coppo
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books

The feeling when we wake up and straightway know that it’s going to be a bad day, will be familiar to adults and perhaps to some children too. It’s certainly the case for little Wolfie, even his cuddly companion, Pepito, is in a bad mood.

Off Wolfie goes to school, through a street of happy-looking people and arrives late.

Nothing he tries turns out right and our small narrator feels nobody understands how he feels.

Then snack time comes and despite getting a fruit he dislikes, things start to look up. After a rest – not a sleep though for another little one stays awake too – the afternoon passes all too fast

and at home time, two little ones report to their respective parents, “It was the BEST BAD DAY EVER!”
Bring on tomorrow!

In just a brief text and scenes with an abundance of deadpan, gentle humour, Marianna Coppo captures that bad day feeling, going to on show how a kind action by another can change everything, making that great big frown into a beaming smile. All that’s needed is somebody who empathises and interacts, and … gone are those grumps.

Add to any preschool book collection, share it and invite the little ones to talk – to one another – in the first instance.