Have you or someone love ever felt sad? Did you feel sad when your friends left and did not play with you? If so, this book is for you. It is a story of Deb her mom and her three friends Ada, Ben and Cal who want to go swim at the beach with Deb. Deb cannot go because she has been sick and had a fever. Each time a friend comes to the door to invite Deb to go swim, her mother lets them know that she is too sick to go. Deb wants to go swimming with her friends and feels sad because they all left and went to the beach. Deb tells her mother that she feels sad when her friends go away. Deb's mother explains there are fun things she can do while she is sick. Deb talks about her sadness and how to cope with it. Finally, she copes with her feelings. Will she play a game? Will she find fun things to do inside? Read this story to find out how Deb copes with sadness and resolves her problem. See how she manages to observe and communicate her feelings of sadness after her friends leave. Explore how it can help to have friends understand and care about you and get creative to find new things to do when you get sad. Maybe after reading this book, you will realize that everyone gets sad sometimes, and there are always ways to cope with your feelings.

This is the sixth book in the twenty-four-book 'I Feel? When?' series that has a plot that moves to a satisfying conclusion, where characters talk about their feelings. They spring from the Emotatude' picture book series that examines how we vibrationally feel inside, and the Emotion Mandala picture book and coloring book. Beginning sight words are used to make this series accessible for early readers. The printed conversation is most often placed nearest the person talking. Reading the printed conversation to find out what the characters say is almost as easy as reading the pictures to find out what they do and how they feel.