Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee’s “Because of a Shoe” and Beatrice Alemagna’s “Her Muddy Majesty of Muck” address children’s anger with compassion.

There’s a bad reputation afforded to anger – just one letter away from danger. But it’s time we gave this core emotion a more rounded consideration, believes Sam Parker, site director for British GQ, ...

Q: I’ve taken anger management classes, and read anger books, and still impulsively say all the wrong things when I get mad. Do you have any tools you teach clients to deal with their anger better? A: ...

A close friend—someone whom I’ve always thought of as an optimist—recently shared his theory that, no matter what time you’re living in, it’s generally a bad one. In each era, he posited, quality of ...

LET Us NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN (471 pp.)—James Agee, Walker Evans —Houghton Mifflin ($6.50). This remarkable work came close to never seeing print, let alone the literary respectability of a new edition ...

I saw children struggling with overwhelming emotions they couldn't understand or express. I realized we needed better tools to help kids build emotional resilience before crisis hits, not just after.” ...