Sandra V. Feder

"“I like feeling peaceful,” the young narrator tells us, then describes the times when he is filled with this emotion. When he is playing with a friend, he feels 'free peaceful'; when he is having family dinner, 'yummy peaceful'; when he is outside gazing up at the sky, 'fluffy clouds peaceful'. But, of course, he doesn’t always feel peaceful, and we hear about his strategies for coping during those times, such as taking deep breaths, imagining...