A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first-day-of-school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

When Gerald the Elephant is sad, Piggie is determined cheer him up, but finds after many tries that it only takes the simplest thing to change Gerald's mood.

It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on the soccer field.

On a gray, gray day, a young girl named Katie finds that adding colors to her life brightens up her day.

Members of Theo's class help him understand his feelings about becoming a big brother.

"Masterworks of contemporary art teach kids about feelings and how they can be expressed in art."--Amazon.com.

"No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms"--

Humorous text and illustrations celebrate the tender and silly moments found in life.

"Follow a young boy as he explores the wide range of emotions that cause him to cryfrom joy to disappointment, from laughter to pain, from love to grief. Through moving and lyrical prose, Sometimes I Cry offers a gentle, necessary affirmation of the emotional complexity of growing up, particularly for a boyand assures young readers that its okay to cry."--Publisher's description.