This cute little book is all about Worry. What is a worry? How can we get rid of a worry, by occupying ourselves with a physical activity, thinking happy thoughts, envisioning the worry sent packing? Yes please! This book is really good. I only gave it three stars because I was reading it to a 4 yr old and she lost interest quick. So the star rating is effected by a four year old lol. But seriously, it would be great for an 8 or 9 year old and is a cute story that probably is worth reading! With our society's increase in mental health issues, its important to empower kids with tools to solve the issues in their lives that can debilitate them - worry is one of those things! Great job on this subject!

INTRODUCTION

What DOES a worry look like? What is it? Where does it comes from? What does it want? That’s what authors Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz answer in their book, “Is A Worry Worrying You?” A book composed for young children, the books emulates worry as a monster stalking the children in the book and blocking them from taking part in their everyday activities and feeling good. The narrator however shows children they can stop it by engaging in positive behavior like helping a friend or by turning a bad situation (that is in their control) into something good.

MY THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK

I LOVED this book, because one, what a better way to better describe what worry—-anxiety is by showing illustrations? The artist behind the book, Marie Le Tourneau, draws “worry” as this apathetic monster that keeps children from experience good feelings and experiences. You see “Worry” throughout the book in many different ways and forms to show children how it can interfere in their lives.

Two, along with the illustrator’s work, the authors use the PERFECT words to help describe this “monster” and it’s “existence” in everyday life:
“A worry isn’t polite. It has no manners. It doesn’t ask if it can enter. It just barges in.
And it will stay as long as you let it.”

I mean what better way to describe anxiety? I mean I could identify with that right away! Thirdly, the book also isn’t too wordy. Whether you read the book to your child or the child reads the book themselves, the book makes anxiety/worry easy enough for anyone else to understand. The book uses practical situations (albeit the talking animals or skateboarding monkey) to show how troublesome the Worry Monster can be. However, the book also shows how to subdue worry.

As quoted earlier, a worry doesn’t care about how you feel, but it will stay as long as allow it to. The narrator reminds the young reader not to feel hopeless about this “uninvited guest”, but to instead to take heart and show him a thing or two. One of the advices the narrator provides to children is to help people. There have been studies that have shown that by adults helping others, they in turn are reducing their own emotional and physical stress. And since these results have shown to hell adults, why not encourage children to do the same?

CONCLUSION

Anxiety—-worry (sometimes the words can be used interchangeably) can be hard to understand, even for adults. The book does a great job of talking about what it is and what it does without using medical explanations, but rather how it looks like in real life, because well sometimes we may not always know, for example, what “a pervasive feeling of apprehension” may look in our everyday lives, because well... living in anxiety is so “normal” to you. And can you imagine for kids, who’s earlier symptoms of anxiety disorder will show as “always needing reassurance”? How would that look like? And while yes, there animals dressed up as humans and taking part in human activities, I think it’s good idea they are drawn in the book while talking about a serious subject such as anxiety/worry.

Is a worry, worrying you? By Ferida Wolff; Harriet May Savitz
Is an awesome book for children.
This book is written in a fun and silly way but talks about a deep trouble many children struggle with. I love this book and have recommended to all my friends with younger children.

Wow. Even as a 25 year-old this was what I needed to hear.

This give the young reader a thought on worrying and anxiety. Letting them know it's normal and okay. And ways you can help make it go away. I will definitely be going out an buying this to have it on my physical bookshelves.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* This is not a bad book to help kids with worrying, its humorous and I liked the artwork, personally not a book I would have liked as a child but if your child is a "what if" child they would probably love this book.

I originally gave this book 3 stars in 2017. Having re-read the book today, I am adjusting my rating to 4 stars.
As an educator, we spend quite a bit of time on social/emotional skills. Our focus is on emotions such as anger, sadness, happiness, but rarely on worry. Anxiety is on the rise - even with our littlest learners. We must teach them to recognize and address the things they are worried about. This book takes a practical approach to identifying a worry and then addressing it, without dismissing or downplaying the worry. Sometimes it requires action, sometimes it requires a shift in thinking.
This books is fabulous opener to discussing worry and letting children know that they do not have to face it alone.

I received an eARc from the publisher via Netgalley. This is my honest review.

This was one of the sweetest children’s books I’ve read and I have certainly read my fair share. Even on the Kindle the pictures are beautiful and will certainly entertain. The message is not only relevant for worried children, it is also relevant for grown adults. I have added this little gem to my devotional collection so I can re-read it quite often.
I thank the publisher for giving me the opportunity to receive this book from Tanglewood through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. This one gets the highest 5*****’s. What a sweet children’s book.

I absolutely loved the illustrations! They went with the story so well. They will definitely keep a child interested! This also will help any kid with anxiety issues, and it will be a fun way for them to learn ways to control it!

My son loved this book. He struggles with anxiety. It's definitely not meant to be read on Kindle. Will definitely purchase the physical. It can be read over and over again.

Great book about handling worry. This is presented with nice illustrations. Worry is a big emotion with all ages of education. Is worry worrying you

Such a great book!
My kids really enjoy this book and they request it very often.
We received this book many years ago when I worked for the distribution company National Book Network.
We will enjoy this book for years to come.

This book teaches children to deal with anxiety. I would recommend it for all kids, not necessarily children with a diagnosis-it opens a conversation and helps by providing some tools for calming and insight. I wished the illustrations were a bit less dark, it made the book less attractive.

I read this book to all of my kids a couple of times. They are 7, 5, and 3. None of them loved it. They enjoyed the illustrations. I was somewhat indifferent about this book. I see where the author was coming from, but see places where it could have been presented differently to better speak to children. I'm not sure what age this is geared to, but it seemed somewhat above the ages of mine. We did take the opportunity to discuss the topic further, so in the sense of introducing the topic as a jumping point for further discussion this book was good. I also have not read another book specifically on this subject for children and I definitely think the topic of emotions in general and worry in particular are very important to discuss with kids. It's hard for the them to understand many of the things they are feeling. This book helps break it down into words and illustrations that are simplistic and understandable to them.

Great book for helping kids with anxiety and teach SEL skills in the classroom. I loved the illustrations and the way they really brought the book to life.

Thanks to NetGalley for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

this book was great for my daughter who struggles with her anxiety. I enjoyed it myself as well!

I loved this book. This subject is very important to me. I cannot wait to read it with my grandson who is nine years old. He lost his father, and feels like he must worry about everything so that it’s not all on his mom. I think this book will be great for him to read and think about what worry really means and what he can do about it.
As far as the actual story, it is cute and charming, easily understandable and relatable. I especially enjoyed the problem-solving ideas. I love the illustrations. They seem to give a whimsical, fun feel to the story.
I think most kids and all adults should be able to relate to the simple ideas shown here to stop worrying about a worry. As adults, I think we often forget how simple things can really be. And I think it’s important to remind children not to make things too complicated. I feel this book does that perfectly.
Thank you to Net Galley for my copy of this book to review.

Was a fun, creepy beautifully done story. I don’t like creepy things so this was the right amount especially for kids.

What a lovely little book! Is a Worry Worrying You? Is basically like a self-help picture book for kids. It describes what a “worry” is, different ways worries can affect a person, and different ways to manage them. It also gives some delightfully absurd examples of worries—what if your new teacher is a bear?! As a mom with an anxious kiddo, I think this is absolutely wonderful!

What a wonderful book! I’ve often thought how sad it was that the little ones have their concerns dismissed because they are little and can’t pososbkt have anything going on! But when you’re that age, anything, no matter how small, can cause such a strain! And like they say, if you listen to then when they are talking about little things, they’ll tell you about the big things later :) my only complaint is it was hard to really see the pictures on the kindle. But I recommend this to anyone with little ones (or older ones!)

What an excellent and important this little book is! This is a book that I would gladly recommend to all the grown ups and all the children alike because everyone worries and mostly no one knows how to deal with it. The author not only addresses the many guises that often the smallest of worries dons on and comes knocking or to use a phrase from the book 'has no manners and barges in'.

I loved the way the author has given everyday causes and symptoms that any child might be able to relate to, to explain what does a worry feel like, how it can manifest itself as a physical ailment or a mental block and how to conquer it. The fact that Wolff has not only spoken about how and what causes us worry but also the ways in which it can be tackled, makes the book a keeper to be reached out for when you are feeling a little lost as a parent or even as an individual.

The illustrations on my Kindle probably do not help me much in making an impression but I am quite sure that they are delightful and engaging in a hard copy of the book.

I am in fact quite surprised that I hadn't come across this book earlier but like they say, better late than never.