This is a great book about letting go of negative thoughts and how they can really take over your life if you let them.

This book is about mindfulness, which is a buzz word right now in kids books. The problem for this reader is that I didn’t immediately get how this book was showing mindfulness. The author had to explain it at the end. Overall, the book was nice, but it can not be successful if it has to explain itself at the end.

"More [thoughts] kept pop-pop-popping up,
until...
Izzy was pushed clean off the page."

Simple and adorable. A charming, whimsical story about anxiety and worry.

The illustrations were clear, colorful and magical. I found the story of growing worries to be true and powerful. I read with my two daughters, aged six and eight. We all smiled and enjoyed this much-needed story on the power of thought, of how anxieties can grow, and of how to approach worry.

I appreciated it's simplicity and the focus on simply reminding us to breath. The visual picture of being weighed down by worries was powerful and true. Highly recommended.

This would be a great book for a young child experiencing anxiety or intrusive/overwhelming thoughts. It's very simple and the illustrations are colorful and appealing. It would be an excellent conversation starter and is very matter-of-fact and non-judgmental. I appreciated the supplemental information about mindfulness and grounding exercises at the end.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

I don't know what it was about this book, but it didn't grab my attention the way I needed it to. The illustrations were cute.

Thank you, Netgalley, for the opportunity to read an arc version of this book!

Too Many Bubbles was such an approachable book for talking about worries and anxiety with kids and providing an opportunity for students to process their feelings. The main character is a mouse who has a thought (bubble) that sticks with them, and then the thoughts (bubbles) begin to grow and accumulate. Our character is overshadowed by the bubbles, physically moving them off the page -- love this connection to how anxiety/worries can lead to a feeling of being disconnected/dissociated from one’s identity. The ending is simple but effective and is followed by kid-friendly tips and context. I would love to have this book on hand in the classroom to introduce some coping mechanisms and mindfulness.

Childrens nonfiction, mindfulness. Books on social emotional learning have been having a moment. While I agree that identifying and working through emotions is important, this book would not be my first choice to work on mindfulness. Maybe as a first stop, to explain what mindfulness is, but beyond that I feel like there are better options out there. A little mouse gets overwhelmed by grumpy little thoughts (represented by multicolored bubbles with illegible scribbled text in them) until she got pushed off the page by them. She decides to go to a safe spot, take a deep breath, and let the thought bubbles float away. This is a helpful mindfulness technique, but it is a very basic one and as such is sure to be included in pretty much any other mindfulness book that also features other strategies. The back matter does offer the additional strategy of relaxing parts of your body little by little and sitting in the calm.

Thank you to the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really like this book as a very simple introduction to mindfulness for young children. Visually it displays perfectly how it feels to be anxious or worried and I love the interactive nature of the book as the children are invited to blow the bubbles away. I will be adding this title to my preschool library.

In this delightful children's book, Izzy struggles with a negative thought. She doesn't know how to get rid of the thought and other negative thoughts begin to grow in her mind. She takes a trip to one of her favorite places, the beach. At the beach, she realizes that the negative thoughts need to be released so that she can be herself again.

As a teacher, I highly recommend this book! This is great read aloud for "growth mindset" and helping students think positively about life. Guidance counselors could also use this book during a lesson on mindfulness. Students would enjoy reading the book, discussing negative thoughts, and then releasing their negative thoughts by going outside and blowing bubbles. This could be an activity to help students release negativity and tension in their own lives.

Children can be overwhelmed with so many emotions that cause anxiety which lead to behavior /academic problems. Mindfulness or awareness of emotions can help children sort thru these "bubbles" that cause them to be easily overwhelmed. The book itself is simplistic in nature. Using bubbles and breathing or blowing out the bubbles can give children a visual of these emotions. It validates and solves all in one "breath".

Izzy the mouse is the main character and all her bubbles. As each one disappears, she feels the weight of being overwhelmed slowly disappear. Good book to discuss with your little one.

A special thank you to Sourcebooks Kids and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

Too Many Bubbles was a great read. As someone that suffers from anxiety myself and has since I was a young child, I think that this book would be so helpful for children to understand that they aren't the only ones that feel this way and also that sometimes you just need to take a break, go to a safe place, and breathe. I loved this book and would highly recommend it to others!

This is a children's book that I read to my twin boys. I love that this book cover having mad thoughts that build up. It shows them that breathing to calm down helps blow away those thought bubbles. This is a cute and useful book. This is really good for kids with anxiety. I receive an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.

This is a nice book for kids to read. It discusses mindfulness and getting rid of overwhelming feelings on a basic, child’s level. The illustrations are soft and colorful.

What a great picture of what mindfulness looks like in a way that kids can easily understand. I was in a bad mood when I read this book and it helped me push the negative thoughts away.

This is the best book for an adult or a child that struggles with nervousness. The illustrations on how Mouse is so bombarded with all of his thoughts, it feels like all of them are bubbles. The bubbles begin to overwhelm him so much that it conquers the whole page!! What mouse learns is that you can blow all of the bubbles, all of the things that you are thinking on away into the world. Once he does that, he begins to feel better. I really liked that at the end of the story it gave several pages of how you can be mindful and relieve stress.