A good approach to the topic of stress but I found it a bit too youthful maybe. I'm not sure how I feel about this book.

What a fantastic and well thought out book for children that helps them understand stress, what it does to us and how to cope with it. I really enjoyed this book.

*received from netgalley for honest review* This is a really great book, it gives detail in a way kids can understands and doesn't just explain stress and how it can effect us but what to do when youre stressed and so many useful things in general about stress, 5 stars!

<em>Under Pressure</em> by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and illustrated by Marie-Ève Tremblay is a children's book that teaches about stress and mental illness. In my opinion, it's one that should also be read with parents (either together or separately) depending on the age of the kid. I just feel as though there's a lot to unpack from this book and not all children will be able to do so on their own.

From regular stress to panic attacks to PTSD to the fight or flight response, there's so much useful knowledge in this book that even I learned from it. And I have a bachelors in Psychology. In a country where these sort of topics are not discussed nearly as often as they should be and some even stigmatized, books like this are immensely important for kids to have access to.

While this book is marketed as a children's book and I would have been so incredibly grateful if I'd had something to put a name to all those panic attacks I couldn't explain when I was nine-years-old, I do think the material is a little bit more geared to pre-teens. Anyone younger than eleven (and even then) would possibly need their parents to help them through learning about all of these things. But it's still incredibly important for them to learn it. For that, I absolutely love this book.

<em>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</em>

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I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you NetGalley.

I was a tad bummed I couldn't download a kindle version, as that's highly preferred.. but.. on to the book itself.

very informative book that touches upon stress, fight or flight, panic attacks and more.

We all know what fight or flight is, how our body reacts to stress or sudden surprises.

This book goes into that, but also goes into things such as panic attacks, and that many studies were only done on men, because they thought that the menstrual cycle would cause abnormalities with the research data. It wasn't until 2016 that America's National Institutes of Health told scientists to work with women as well.

This book goes over all things that can cause stress, such as surviving an earthquake or a war, and gives stress busters to help beat stress, for each chapter.

And there is a positive side to stress, that if we work with it, we can be more successful.

Throughly delightful, informative book, that should be fun for both middle-grades on up to adult.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

***Thanks to the publisher and #NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***
This comprehensive guide to stress is something I wish I had had when I was a teen (or younger). The idea of stress and its symptoms, reasons, and ways to help, are all laid out in this easy to read reference book. It also uses interesting anecdotes to highlight how and why someone may feel a certain way.

This is just an outstanding book, and one I would never have expected to cover such a mature subject matter so well for older primary schoolers. I'm quite sure there is information in here that would have made my psychology A-level easier, had I taken the relevant modules. We go back to the origins of the 'fight or flight' response mankind has to potential traumas, and learn that our knowledge of it all started when someone was watching cats digest. We see the reality behind 'what doesn't kill us makes us stronger', and we get right down to the nitty-gritty of mindfulness. And it's all thoroughly readable – box-outs give us examples of heroic activity under stress and yet-to-be-finalised research, but the main body of writing just flows so easily and legibly. The artwork breaks up the page and conveys the meaning well, too, without drawing too much attention to itself. I might be slightly biased towards this as I know of no rival books on the subject for this audience, but I think this must rank as a must-buy for school libraries everywhere.