Title: Is a Worry Worrying You?
Authors: Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz
Artist: Marie Letourneau
Genre: Inspiration / Horror / Humor / Monsters
Year Published: 2005
Year Read: 2017
Publisher: Tanglewood Publishing Inc
Source: eARC (NetGalley)
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Some Scary Imagery)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Some Scary Imagery)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
I
would like to thank NetGalley and Tanglewood for
providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Now, I have read many children’s
books that is usually either a straight up horror story or a straight up
morality tale. But, I had never come
across a children’s book that had both horror and life lessons for children all
combined into one story until I had requested another children’s book from
NetGalley called “Is a Worry Worrying
You?” “Is a Worry Worrying You?” is a children’s book written by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz
along with illustrations by Marie
Letourneau and it is definitely one of the most creative and haunting
children’s books I had ever read!
This book is basically about
helping children deal with being worried about certain situations by showing
their worries in the form of a monster that is constantly hounding the
characters in the book. The book would
put the characters in certain situations such as worrying about a hundred
elephants coming for tea and you realize that you ran out of tea for the
elephants to drink. So, the solution to
the problem would be to offer the elephants lemonade instead, helping you not
to worry so much during that situation and finding a reasonable solution to
your problem.
Wow! I cannot believe that I just got around to
reading this book (it was published in 2005, and I just discovered it on
NetGalley)! Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz both did a fantastic job at
writing this book as I loved the idea about the concept of worry being
portrayed as a scary monster that invades the characters’ homes every time the
character in the story is dealing with a problem that causes them to worry! I also loved the fact that the story helps
give out advice to young children about how to deal with worrisome situations
such as finding a solution to take when dealing with such a situation. Probably my most favorite problem-solving
situation that was shown in this book was the one where you have a group of
elephants in your home who all want to have some tea and you do not have any
tea left to give them. Instead, you
decided to give the elephants some lemonade in place of the tea to solve the
problem! Marie Letourneau’s artwork is surprisingly creepy in this book,
which is much different from her work in “Argyle
Fox.” I loved the fact that Marie Letourneau’s artwork is highly
reminiscent of the character designs from the Tim Burton films with the characters having large rounded eyes with
dark shadings underneath the eyes and also having tall and lanky bodies that make
them look unnatural. I also loved the
image of the worry monster itself as it is drawn as a blue monster with a mischievous
evil grin on its face and it was quite entertaining seeing the monster pop up
on each page whenever someone faces a situation that worries them.
Parents should know that the
illustrations in this book might be a bit too creepy for some small children to
handle, especially the images of the worry monster as it looks pretty threatening
in the pages it appears in; especially whenever it is stalking the characters
in the book. Parents might want to read
this book first to see if their children can handle such creepy images.
Overall, “Is a
Worry Worrying You?” is a truly fantastic and unique children’s book that
would greatly help children overcome their worries in life and find reasonable
solutions in conquering their worries! I
would recommend this book to children ages five and up since the imagery might
scare some small children.
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