locolibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
The story focuses on how a worry can keep you from doing a lot of things by giving many goofy examples like tea with elephants and gorillas borrowing skateboards. Overall our theme of how to deal with worries is an important social-emotional topic handled in a fun, kid-friendly way.
mrsbond's review against another edition
4.0
Delightful story about worries. Really! The text encourages the reader to work through (serious but silly) worries with simple solutions. We are reminded that "A worry isn't polite. It has no manners." The children in the story treat worry appropriately, ignoring it, replacing it, facing, and talking it through with someone. Illustrations are colorful, detailed and fun.
jodyladuemcgrath's review against another edition
5.0
Worrying is something all kids suffer from, more some than others. It is a hard emotion to describe and an even harder emotion to deal with. In this cute and poignant children's book by Ferida Wolff, she takes shows children different ways worrying can make you feel and how worrying over real things and imaginary things alike can both be impactful feelings to children. She then gives a variety of different ways to deal with these worry. Some all easy as go play and some as hard as to confront it head on. She also gives the sage advice to tell some and ask for help. As a chronic worrier when I was a child, I would have loved this book. I never understood the emotions I was feeling and mistook it for guilt, when I had done nothing wrong. I would definitely buy this book for any under 10 year old I had in my family! Highly recommended!
**I was given a copy of this book and I gave an honest review **
**I was given a copy of this book and I gave an honest review **
cynthiak's review against another edition
4.0
What is a worry and how to make it disappear? This book tells you how :-)
constantcatreader's review against another edition
4.0
The story focuses on how a worry can keep you from doing a lot of things by giving many goofy examples like tea with elephants and gorillas borrowing skateboards. Overall our theme of how to deal with worries is an important social-emotional topic handled in a fun, kid-friendly way.
gothai's review against another edition
4.0
Book about worries, how it makes us feel and tips to overcome them. Wonderful illustrations.
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher
littlelili1320's review against another edition
5.0
This a cute, fun resource for helping children with their worries. I have anxiety and I think this would have been nice growing up. I would purchase a physical copy. The art is unique & I love it. There's a lot of good examples of worries and solutions to them
I received this ebook from NetGalley
I received this ebook from NetGalley
drcopeland's review
5.0
I adored this book! I think it is a great way to help children deal with some of the feelings they have that are making them feel anxious. This is such a good book, especially after the pandemic. Children often don't know how to express their "worries" and this book helps them do that. It also opens the conversation for parents to talk to their children about things that are worrying them.
The artwork was beautiful and helped bring the story to life. I really like that they used a "monster" as a symbol of worry because I think this will make it easier for children to understand a difficult abstract concept.
Thank you, NetGalley and Tanglewood Publishing for the chance to read this book!
The artwork was beautiful and helped bring the story to life. I really like that they used a "monster" as a symbol of worry because I think this will make it easier for children to understand a difficult abstract concept.
Thank you, NetGalley and Tanglewood Publishing for the chance to read this book!
nbvanderhyden's review against another edition
4.0
I liked the text, a lot. Very clever, creative for young minds, engaging, funny also helpful and supportive. The ideas on ways to approach a worrying situation was great. I especially loved ways to get rid of the worry- mail it, face it, etc. The only thing I didn't like was the illustrations. Right now, my oldest child is 3 years old. I would not consider her old enough now for this book, the concepts are too mature for her, but I don't know if the illustrations would grow on me as she ages into this book. The worry is a scary monster who is laying under the bed....creepy! Like I said, this book is for an older audience than I have in my house, and 6 year olds may not blink at the illustrations.
sweetcreature89's review against another edition
4.0
With two children under the age of five, I know that it's not always easy for little ones to understand the feelings they feel or how they should react or handle situations and emotions that are new or overwhelming to them.. Often, it seems really, really hard for them. Because of this, I absolutely love books that help guide and teach children how to deal with their emotions and understand the things that they are feeling. Worry is not a great thing for anyone whether young, old, male, female, etc. but everyone feels it and it nice to have a visual representation in the form of the illustrations in this story in order to better explain to kids the idea of worry. I also enjoyed the fact that Is A Worry Worrying You? gave multiple different possibilities and examples of worry as no two situations or people are the same. Overall, this was a great book, and I think it's a fun teaching aid to little ones.