Finn Throws A Fit

Finn Throws a Fit

Illustrator: Timothy Basil Ering
ISBN: 9780763623562
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: August 2009
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Age Range: 2 to 4

Finn likes peaches. Usually. But not today. Today Finn doesn’t like anything. Uh-oh. Is Finn going to throw a fit? Author David Elliott directs the event with wit, warmth, and appropriate wariness, while illustrator Timothy Basil Ering’s energy and whimsy match this tantrum turn for turn. At once empathetic and uproariously funny, this picture book speaks directly to anyone (young or old) who has ever had — or tried to contain — a real earth-quaking, ground-shaking, full-on fit.

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

* Parents’ Choice Awards Silver Honor

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY

“Droll text and exuberant illustrations render a toddler’s tantrum in all its magnificence…Elliott and Ering operate like the left and right hands of a single comic mind; each tongue-in-cheek line of text is deftly countered with raw charcoal scrawls, wild strokes of paint and crazed scribbles. Small readers will giggle at the realization of their angry feelings…while parents will blanch at the brilliant exposition of the power their children hold over them.” –Starred Review, Publishers Weekly

“This wise book acknowledges that childish anger can’t be willed away, but also suggests that parents and children can ride out the storm together.” Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker 

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“Finn Throws a Fit is an absolute must have for anyone who has – or has ever had – an angry toddler.” –Guardian Observer (UK)

 ”Oh, we’ve all seen the toddler in the grocery store having a melt down (usually in back of us when we are in a really long line). Or we, ourselves, have woken up and everything is just WRONG about the day. Elliott captures that drama perfectly in Finn Throws a Fit.” –Booklist Online

“Little ones will enjoy reading about the havoc that Finn causes in his household, and perhaps be reassured that they will be loved just as much as Finn is when their own small storms are over.” –Bookloons

SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THIS BOOK

Sometimes, in the book business a happy coincidence occurs. In this case, Tim Basil Ering has a toddler named Finn, something I wasn’t aware of when I wrote the text.