The Do-Over Day

This book is fabulous. My kids always say “well today was the worst day ever” so I always felt they needed a do over day. I even read it last week virtually to my sons second grade class and they loved it. It’s a perfect book to teach them that sometimes we have to think before they react.

Everyone has those days when things don't go as planned, and kids need to learn how to deal with adversity. I love that the main character realizes why her wants and wishes weren't appropriate choices. I also enjoyed the situational role playing after the story that is sure to spark good conversations.Talking through what was good and bad about the day is a good life lesson in conflict resolution.Great job on the story and the illustrations!

"The Do-Over Day: a children's book about surviving the worst day ever," By Julia Inserro and illustrated by Miro Tartan is a great book to teach a lessons on how to make things better when having a bad day.The illustrations were adorable. The fonts were easy to read but I wished they had been a tad bit darker for better reading.I especially liked the back of the book, as it shows examples on cards: Event-Think-Act-Feel.I received a kindle version copy of this book offered by the author.

This book was super funny as it shows how “rough” our kids think they have it. The elevator buttons made me laugh out loud since my kids fought about that just yesterday. The little things kids take to heart can weigh on them. This book teaches kids that when things don’t go their way to reflect on it, but start with a fresh outlook the next day. What an awesome message for kids to learn!

Julia Inserro wonderfully captures the realities of childhood that can really sink a kid's day. From not getting to push the elevator button (AHH!) to dealing with younger siblings who "get to do it all" sometimes, we need a do-over day. The story is sweet and Layla, the main character, solves her problems on her own with a little guidance from her grandma. A great read if your kid is having a grumpy day and feeling like they need some help figuring things out.

Pretty sure my two kids have fought over or been upset by every example in the book! Especially pushing the elevator buttons! A Do Over Day is all about figuring out how to make the next day better even if today wasn't the greatest. Everyone (kids and adults alike) need a do over day once in a while!

Love this book as it provides options for very common different scenarios and possibilities for reacting to things when the child doesn't get what they want. Example; not getting to sit next to someone they want to at the dinner table. Recommend for those kiddos who don't react well when they don't get what they want!

This is such book that tackles the concept of bad days. Everyone has them; it seems like nothing goes your way and everyone says "no" to everything. On reflection though, maybe things weren't so bad after all. What a great way to help children take a look at events they feel are unjust and change their perspective on them. Really cute!

The Do-Over Day is the story of Layla as she lay in bed thinking about the day she's had and she tells her gran she'd like a do-over day to fix all the things that went wrong.This is an interesting idea for a book and it makes you think about whether things are really as bad as they seem and how you could make them better maybe by starting again the next day. The book spends a lot of time going over the bad parts of the day but only a few pages showing what Layla would have liked the day to look like. It would have been nice to see more of this to balance out the negative outlook she has on the day for the first half of the book.The illustrations are cartoon styles and lots of fun to look at. They show Layla's feelings well through the book and it's nice to see her and her grandmas relationship and the support the characters give when chatting through the story. This is a good book but it would have been good to see more of the positive and imaginative side of Layla too.

Loved this book! The author clearly recognises that children don't always have a greatest perspective when processing their emotions/feelings and putting them in context. I've lost count of the number of times my daughter says "it's the worst day ever!" I love it how this book helps children scaffold their thinking and provides them with strategies to regulate their feelings and emotions. A great book for children packed full of learning opportunities!

I'm constantly looking for books to read to our dear A (4 yr) and G (2 yr) at bedtime. As with all siblings there is constant debate on multiple ocassions (e.g. that elevator button). A (4 yr) was able to relate with the main character in so many ways. This book helped me offer A a new mechanism to cope with bad days. Apart from that, the narative itself and the scenes are a fun read. Every time A asked for a re-read he was spotting new interesting things happening on the pages. A particularly likes the cat, and G likes to spot the purple octopus on every page (ooops, forgot to #spoileralert). For older kids there's a 'workbook-like' section at the end of the book that lists other day-by-day hard-to-cope-with situations. I see these activities as a good tool to facilitate dialog with your child and a way to promote an alternative positive emotion to an otherwise strong, negative feeling. Illustrations are great, characters are funny, message (it's more than just a message, like I said... it's a new addition to a kid's emotional toolkit) is strong and the story will catch the attention of a wide spectrum of ages. It's a worthy addition to our ever growing library of great children books.

In The Do Over Day, Layla talks through her day with grandma, examining her emotions and thinking about what she would do differently if given the chance. But the best part of this book for me is the nifty resource page at the end that kids can use to process their emotions, and which I definitely plan to use with my kids. I just recently discovered Julia Inserro but I have quickly become a big fan of her writing.