Yamada, Kobi
VOX Books, 2016
From the publisher: This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn’t so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared.
This inspires a rather serious conversation about how we deal with hard things. When the child in the story starts to acknowledge the problem, new things are discovered about it – a deeper learning lies within the problem – maybe a discovery about one’s self, maybe an opportunity to think differently or act in a new way. It does much the same thing as another book I like, “There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon” by Jack Kent which perhaps treats the subject more light-heartedly and doesn’t quite touch on the harder stuff. Yamadi, on the other had, doesn’t assume the problem goes away with a new outlook, but that, with courage and creativity, there is a way through!