Holdin Pott

by Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Jr. Erich Peter Ippen

Overview

A worn pressure cooker and a sweet little pot learn new ways of dealing with difficult feelings

Meet the Potts. Holdin Pott grew up learning to keep in feelings of sadness and anger. He is one tough pressure cooker. Little Pott is watching and wants to be just like him, but when you’re little and the heat is on really high, it’s hard to keep the lid on and hold tough stories and feelings inside. What will Little Pott do? How will Holdin Pott help him?

From the team that created Once I Was Very Very Scared and You Weren’t With Me, comes a new story to help children and grown-ups start difficult conversations and snuggle in closer together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950168057
Publisher:	Piplo Productions
Publication date:	09/22/2019
Pages:	34
Sales rank:	345,213
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.09(d)
Age Range:	2 - 8 Years

About the Author

Chandra combines her love of story and cute creatures with her training in clinical psychology. She is Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and co-developer of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidence-based treatment for children under age 6 who have experienced trauma. She has spent over 30 years working to support families affected by stress and trauma. She writes children's books to translate what she has learned about stress, trauma, and healing in the hopes that families and providers can use these stories to start healing conversations. Her Trinka and Sam disaster story series, developed in collaboration with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, has reached over 400,000 families across the world.

As a boy, Erich was always interested in cartoons and character design. In his professional career, as a digital artist and technical director at Industrial Light and Magic, he has created visual effects for movies like Rango, Harry Potter, The Avengers and Star Wars and many others. He is also a singer, songwriter, music producer and founding member of the seminal San Francisco rock band District 8.

Editorial Reviews

"A simple story with visual appeal and a well-crafted message." "Ghosh Ippen, a child psychologist specializing in childhood trauma, has created multiple gentle and thoughtful picture books informed by her clinical work and practice." "Readers should know that her messages are for parents, too: Here, Holdin Pott looks beyond Little Pott's messy outburst, recognizing the need for his son to learn how to safely express his feelings and that he's loved" - Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2022-11-07
A lonely little kitchen pot doesn’t know what to do with his lid-rattling emotions in Ghosh Ippen’s picture book.

Little Pott, a small cooking pan, wants to be like his father, Holdin Pott, a stoic pressure cooker, who says, “Sadness, anger, I keep ’em inside / along with tears I never cried. / At times I fear I’ll overflow, / but that’s my way, it’s what I know.” Little Pott tries hard to contain his own sorrow and rage when he’s bullied by other pots and pans, but the heat of his emotions reaches the boiling point, and the explosive result leaves him frightened and confused. What will Holdin Pott do? Ghosh Ippen, a child psychologist specializing in childhood trauma, has created multiple gentle and thoughtful picture books informed by her clinical work and practice, includingOnceI Was Very Very Scared(2018) and You Weren’t With Me(2019). Readers should know that her messages are for parents, too: Here, Holdin Pott looks beyond Little Pott’s messy outburst, recognizing the need for his son to learn how to safely express his feelings and that he’s loved. Illustrator Ippen’s lively pots and pans, in stove and countertop settings, are an offbeat, expressive delight; each full-page, border-to-border image is well integrated with clear, rhyming text.

A simple story with visual appeal and a well-crafted message.

Kirkus Reviews