Ed feels lonely when the others do not want to play with his large yellow ball. Ed's Friends find small balls that fit to play box ball. Soon the monster friends play together in a way to help everyone feel included.

Karen White Porter M.Ed. NBCT is an educator. She believes emotional intelligence is important for children's learning and development. Her students in Scotland, China, the USA have inspired her to write about emotion. She writes the Emotatude book series to help children deal with feelings in concrete terms. Her recent book Emotional Mandalas artistically represents different emotions. Her earlier works deal with a separate emotion such as fear, love, joy, grief, compassion, frustration, and anger.