Apparently I'm a big fan of kids' books that can help me with my very adult problems, too. This one was great! I love that it addresses the topic of kids worrying about things and how much it can consume your day - stop you from playing, from eating, from thinking of much of anything else. But it doesn't only confirm that this is normal and okay, it gives concrete, helpful ways to diminish those worries so you can live alongside them. Awesome!

As a mom of a little kid with anxiety I'm so glad to see this book.

Our main character finds a worry and decides to keep it as a pet, but the worry grows and grows and takes over all the good things in their life. Finally help comes from a worry expert who teaches how to make a worry small again and then our friend is living the good life again!

The skills to make a worry small are excellent coping skills and developmentally appropriate for a preschool/school aged kid. There are also some extra notes at the end that go a bit more in depth if that is needed.

Overall a great tool for teaching social emotional intelligence.

Fear is what causes worry for us. When children do not feel safe, secure or accepted a worry monster is on their back. This is a great book to read with your child that tends to worry. How worry starts small that you can put it in your pocket. Worry left unchecked goes with you everywhere. The thing about worry it feeds off itself and gets bigger. There are some things you can do to put yourself in control.

What a great book to name the worries in your life and how to fight them.
This book is good for teachers, social workers and parents.

Highly recommend.

A special thank you to Magination Press and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review

The illustrations are amazing! My kids loved it! And it’s a great reminder how to deal with worry. I will definitely be buying a hard copy for working with children.
This book was gifted to me by NetGallery, all opinions are my own.

I ADORE this book! I am a mom of an anxious kiddo and a preschool teacher, and I strongly believe this book should have a place in every home with kids. It’s simple, fun, and actually shows great techniques to calm worries! I recommend this book to every parent, teacher, and even adults! I received a free copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

This book is about a child who carries worry with them. The child asks for help and is taught different ways to manage the fear! This is am must have for elementary children dealing with these issues. Highly recommend.

This was a really helpful book when it comes to helping children understand anxiety and worry. My daughter was very anxious as a child - she still is - and she had a lot of worries. At the time, there weren't a lot of books for her age around anxiety and we could really have used something like this to help her understand how worrying builds bigger and bigger anxieties and leads to more and more physical and mental distress. She just didn't get that it was something she could control even with outside help. And while no book will solve that, I found any book that dealt with anxiety, like Wemberly Worried, allowed us to have a conversation in a safe and neutral way. She was much more receptive. This book takes the worry and shows how it grows and how it shrinks, and points to some of the techniques that we all use to combat anxiety no matter how young or old we are. I appreciated the artwork and the rhyme because both make this more approachable as a theme or issue.

And the book had some nice supports at the end that parents could use to extend the teachable moment beyond the book.

I feel that this book would also be good for a family where maybe a friend or another family member has anxiety and a child is trying to understand that and manage their reaction to it. I've seen plenty of children who point to the one child who is nervous and make fun of them in some way, and this book could be helpful in showing them that the reason for this may not be something they can control and is not something to ridicule.

I would definitely suggest this book to parents with children who are nervous and to help anyone young dealing with anxiety.

This is a great book for young children to learn about emotions and how to manage them. Some of the rhymes were a tad awkward and weren't as smooth as I would love for reading this aloud though. Overall it was a cute way to think about worry, and a great way to introduce it to children. The reader's note in the backmatter was very useful and helpful, and the illustrations were adorable!

Loved this one. It was a good reminder for not only my kids but myself. We need to find joy in things and do our best to keep our worries away. Illustrations were bright and colorful and kept my kids attention.

Great book that helps little ones understand with words and pictures about what to do with their worries. I cannot wait to buy a physical copy- my kiddos would greatly benefit when using the calm down exercises that shows how the worry is large but gets smaller and to keep practicing.

What a great classroom read! This could 100% be implemented in your classroom to teach children about anxiety. I will buy this book as soon as it comes out to great a lesson. Let that worry pet go! Thank you to the publisher for letting me review on netgallery.