Little Bodhi And The Hurry Up Day

For the child who is always being hurried.Hurry up, said somebody in the kitchen. Hurry up, said somebody in the yard. Hurry up, said everybody. Bodhi went as fast as he could go, and it was not fast enough, and the hurry buzzed up from his feet until his breath was quick and thin.Nobody tells Bodhi to keep going. He stops in the middle of the path, and the hurrying goes on without him. Then he finds Turtle, whom nobody hurries, and Crane, who watches hills that are in no rush at all, and Cat, who lets the whole day go past her, and Monkey and Puppy, who are fast only because fast is fun.This is a picture book about the difference between being fast and being hurried. Small children are hurried more than almost anybody, and they have no way to hurry. They cannot make a buckle fasten faster or their legs longer. What arrives instead is the feeling of hurry, and that feeling makes nobody quicker. It only turns the day into a chase. The day still gets done here. It gets done one step at a time.Inside the book:Fourteen calm spreads, about 450 words, made to be read in one sittingA breathing refrain that repeats three times, so a child can say it along with you by the second readingA Note For Grown-Ups on the difference between fast and hurried, and what to do on the mornings when you really do have to be out of the doorThree Things To Try Together: Walk Like Turtle, Look Like Crane, Run Like PuppyWarm flat illustrations, with no screens, no scolding, and no grown-ups in the storyBook three of Little Bodhi And The Animal Sangha. Every book gives one animal one feeling and keeps the same calm shape, so a child who knows one book already knows how the next one goes. Reading age 3 to 7.