Written with compassion and care, a thoughtful story about a little girl who visualizes her depression as a way of learning to cope.
Reviewed by a child psychologist, this book is a great choice for teaching social-emotional learning, critical thinking and character education lessons on perseverance and resilience..
Neville-Lee\'s art uses soft, muted colors, with lightness and color gradually added as Abigail moves from feeling overwhelmed by her depression to learning how to live with it and even find relief from it.
The repetition in the text and the visual narrative pull readers in, making this an excellent read-aloud pick to spark discussions about feelings.
Anna Lazowski\'s lyrical text together with Penny Neville-Lee\'s expressive drawings provide young children with a way to understand and talk about their own feelings.
In this sensitive picture book, symbolic imagery perfectly captures how depression can look and feel.
And how, sometimes, she can even step away from it and feel the sunshine on her skin.
How she can trap it in a sandcastle at the beach.
Like how it\'s not always the same size.
Then one day, Abigail begins to figure some things out about her Dark cloud.
It even takes away her appetite for birthday cake.
Her Dark Cloud makes the other children distant and messes with her grand jeté during ballet class.
But it\'s always with her, getting in the way of things.
It can be a ball of worries, a swirl of fog or a long shadow.
It follows her everywhere.
Abigail has a Dark cloud.
Written with compassion and care, a thoughtful story about a little girl who visualizes her depression as a way of learning to cope
