I’m excited to share a new children’s book with you called Jane’s Worry Elephant A Self-Help Guide for Kids with Anxiety by Kelly Miller (Author), Miguel Ambalada (Illustrator). I received a copy of this book in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate link. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
Before I share my review with you I wanted to let you know you Jame is a very lucky little girl because she has a Elephant Joe. I don’t know about you but I would give anything to have a pet Elephant or two. I just wish they would stay a baby because a huge Elephant wouldn’t fit in my home. How about yours? .
I have a question for you. Would you want a Elephant? Before I share my thoughts with you I wanted to let you know Jane’s Worry Elephant A Self-Help Guide for Kids with Anxiety is for those of us suffering from anxiety.
Did you know at times Charlie and I both suffer from anxiety? I also wanted to let you know anxiety has eve affected David not that he is going to admit he has dealt with anxiety. Now, my question is does anxiety bother someone you know?
At times all of us get’s anxious but Jane does everyday so she has a Elephant to help her with her anxiety. The Elephant ends up taking drastic measures to help Jane. Because of this Jane her worry button daily. To hep Jane out the Elephant thought he should sit on her.
Then Jane got scared about making a mistake and the Elephant over reacted and made Jane feel worse. It got to the point Jane didn’t even want to go out to dinner with her parents. At times Charlie has felt the same way and would hide in his room not even coming downstairs for dinner.
Jane and her brother would bicker like siblings do but Jane began to believe he was a threat to her. Joe the Elephant talked to jane about fear but he made it worse at times. Finally Jane talked to her parents about the way she was feeling . Her parents were able to help Janes and she was able to talk to Joe about how being calm helped her.
Jane began to use mindfulness and things changed for the better. Jane and Fred learned to be kind to each other. Jan won a medal in gymnastics and Joe even cheered for Jane. I love how the Author teaches us positive ways to deal with being anxious.
In the back of Jane’s Worry Elephant A Self-Help Guide for Kids with Anxiety is a parent guide giving us steps to help us out in different circumstances. I plan on printing the guide out for us to have to use anytime we become anxious and to share the guide with our friends and family.
The Author even included a page on strategies we can all use no, matter how old we are. Also inside the book is a guide we can fill out which will allow us to work through our feelings together. The illustrations are so cute. All teachers and counselors should keep copies of Jane’s Worry Elephant A Self-Help Guide for Kids with Anxiety in there office at all times.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
