Ravi's Roar by Tom Percival

From Goodreads, 

"This engaging book in the Big Bright Feelings series is a clever take on temper tantrums.

Ravi never minded being the smallest in his family. Until one day, his short arms can't reach the monkey bars, he can't find anyone during hide-and-seek, AND he's too little to ride the big slide. Ravi is so mad--so furious--that he can't control his temper anymore . . .

. . . and he becomes a ferocious, roaring TIGER!

Being a tiger is great. Tigers can do anything they want! But who wants to play with a growling, wild tiger who won't share or behave? Ravi is about to discover something very important about voicing his feelings.

The Big Bright Feelings picture books provide kid-friendly entry points into emotional intelligence topics--from being true to yourself, to worrying, to anger management, to making friends. These topics can be difficult to talk about. But these books act as sensitive and reassuring springboards for conversations about mental and emotional health, positive self-image, building self-confidence, and managing feelings."

Goodreads - Ravi's Roar

We are nearing the end of the picture books that came in my Scholastic book box.  There are only 2 more after this one.  That being said, this book focuses on anger and how a kid can deal with it. 

Ravi's Roar is the story of a boy named Ravi.  Ravi is too small and always misses out on things because he is so small.  Page by page he gets angrier and angrier until he turns into a tiger.  Once Ravi is a tiger everyone gives him what he wants and he gets to do all things he couldn't when he was just a boy.  Will Ravi learn his lesson and learn to control his anger? 

This book really sent some mixed messages.  The book is about a boy who gets angry and he turns into a tiger.  At this point, there were two messages I got and they were very mixed.  One was that as a kid if you throw a fit you will get what you want.  Ravi gets angry, turns into the tiger, and gets what he wants because everyone is scared of him.  The other message was that as a kid you need to learn how to control your anger or else no one will want to play with you.  These messages are very contradicting of each other.  This book implies that you can manipulate people to get what you want if you just get angry.  I don't know how kids would take this book and the message in this.  Maybe as an adult, I'm reading too far into the message of this book. 

I did not like this book.  I didn't like the message in this book as it had mixed messages.  I give this 1 star.  It would fit best in an elementary classroom, but I think an adult should definitely talk to the students about anger and managing it.