Review: The Worrying Worries

Young children can learn to manage their worries in the delightful “The Worrying Worries.” When a young child finds a worry in the wild, they take it home where it grows to something quite unmanageable. The purplish scribble-looking worry grows and grows until there is no choice but to learn techniques to manage its unpleasant effects. Once the strategies are implemented, the worry begins to shrink.

The illustrations and rhyming text are delightful. Rachel Rooney provides specific strategies for young children (and adults too!) to manage worries that get out of control. At the end of the book there is additional background for adult readers to help their little ones.

This would be a great book to have in the elementary classroom and would even be appropriate to have on the shelf in a middle school classroom. I will purchase a copy to share with my psychology students at the high school level.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book provided by the publisher, American Psychological Association, via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.