![]() ![]() "A complex book with a beautiful, timely message. ![]() The unnamed narrator is a young Black girl whose friend, Jenny Mei, a girl of the same age with short black hair and tan skin, carries a. Sometimes sadness is not as easy to tuck away. "Subisak sweetly shows, in word and art, how friends are supposed to stick together, even during the not-so-fun times. PreS-Gr 2Sometimes sadness is disguised with smiling, joking, and laughing. ![]() "Subisak’s illustrations, rendered in India ink, Japanese watercolor, pastel, and colored pencil, are bold in color yet delicate in detail. The text is simple yet thoughtful, painting our narrator as the empathetic friend she is."- Horn Book Sad people may lash out in their misery and, indeed, feel swept away by loneliness and sorrow.- The Wall Street Journal Subisak shows with kindness, don’t always behave as we imagine they should. “A child’s consciousness of impending loss hums beneath the surface of Tracy Subisak’s gentle picture book “Jenny Mei Is Sad.”…In the colorful illustrations, we see Jenny Mei in school, smiling and playing the clown and then suddenly, inexplicably, tearing up a classmate’s drawing. Those who are sad, Ms. "A sensitive, gracefully wrought portrait of compassion."- Publishers Weekly "Intelligently and sympathetically demonstrates that children have complex emotional lives too. ![]()
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