Never Bludgeon A Curmudgeon! The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon by Matthew Burgess

Her brother is in a mood. Not a good mood. Beyond a bad mood!

His bad mood has morphed into a curmudgeonly mood!

He's unmovable, immobile, mired (but not admired) in that mood.

He's such a grumpus that his red hair has turned into fright wig. His eyes are baleful. He's a fang-face with werewolf feet.

And he refuses to budge even for fudge! He won't scooch even a smidgen!

IT WOULDN'T BE RIGHT TO BLUDGEON THE CURMUDGEON,

BUT MAYBE HE DESERVES ONE HUMONGOUS NUDGE.

But be careful. Curmudgeonliness can be communicable! If you push and shove a curmudgeon, you might soon find yourself transmogrifying into one yourself!

How to free someone from a frightful funk is the subject of Matthew Burgess' brand-new The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019), a picture book which tackles a familiar subject-- what to do when someone is having a terrible, horrible, no-good, etc., day. Should you pass your mood on to your sister? Probably not. Two curmudgeons are not better than one! A hug can't hurt, in this tale of a fungible state of mind, in which illustrator Fiona Woodcock gives her little grumpy siblings a chance to change their mood with her comic two-toned illustrations set against bright white pages.

And if this book isn't curative, take a couple of Caldecott Winners--When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really Angry… (Scholastic Bookshelf) and Where the Wild Things Are-- and call me in the morning.