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Gentle, supportive, and straightforward, Sometimes When I'm Jealous describes a child's experience with jealousy and the related emotion of envy. "Sometimes when I'm jealous, I do mean things. I don't listen to my teacher when he asks me to share the crayons at my desk. Everything is so unfair!"
Along with the main character, young children learn ways to cope with jealousy, which can be a challenging emotion. "Grandpa says we can feel jealous when our friends spend time away from us. He teaches me that friends don't stop liking us because they're with other people. Grandpa asks if I want to walk to the park to find someone to play with. Or if I want to call a friend and make a playdate for tomorrow."
A special section for adults offers more information on how children of differing ages express jealousy and envy, and how to help children manage these feelings in healthy and empowering ways.
"In Serani's picture book, a child struggles with jealousy and turns to a teacher and family for advice. As the young narrator goes through his day, he realize that he's often jealous. Home can be difficult when his baby sibling needs help and his older sister gets to stay up late. School is hard when classmates want the narrator's art materials, or when he isn't the best at soccer. And weekends can be challenging when his friends play with others, and he's left alone. However, when things are difficult at home, the narrator's dad affirms his feelings and offers to include him in feeding the baby. At school, his teacher encourages him to reflect on what he can do with his jealousy; he shares markers and asks the soccer coach for help. On the weekends, Grandpa offers to bring the narrator to the playground. Amid Teis' colorful drawings picturing varying facial displays of the child's emotions, young readers will likely find the story and scenarios relatable and easy to understand. The book goes beyond how to recognize difficult feelings and encourages children to share them with adults in their lives. The narrator and his family are depicted with pale skin, and crowds of children outside have a range of skin tones. A good book for kids and parents who are navigating conversations around difficult emotions."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Jealousy is easy to experience but difficult to understand. Using the child's-eye perspective and voice that so distinctively characterizes the other entries in her Sometimes When series, Serani tackles jealousy and envy in childhood with a sympathetic perspective that recognizes and respects how these intense and related emotions so often begin in the inescapable but mundane disappointments of living and loving. The illustrations are as clear and compelling as the experience of jealousy itself, and the book has an accessible guide and set of resources for parents seeking to read with rather than to their young child."
- Jeffrey G. Parker, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Alabama and researcher on jealousy, envy, and competitiveness
