Shrinking the Worry Monster: A Kids Guide for Saying Goodbye to Worries

Worry Monster has been whispering mean things to kids and making them feel terrible. Now it is up to Brooklyn and Jackson to discover the monster's secret-and stop him!
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This delightful story contains research-based strategies that kids and their parents can use to overcome worry and fear. An introduction explains how faulty thinking can lead to worry, and three appendices offer the tools needed for reducing a child's worries. This is a very entertaining book, but it also contains an important lesson that really does help kids learn to "shrink" their worries. Author Sally Baird has successfully used these strategies with her clients for over 20 years.
The book is suitable for ages 3 to 12, but can be useful for ages 3 to 93! This delightful story contains research-based strategies that kids and their parents can use to overcome worry and fear. An introduction explains how faulty thinking can lead to worry, and three appendices offer the tools needed for reducing a child's worries. Author Sally Baird has successfully used these strategies with her clients for over 20 years.

Dr. Sally has been a public health nurse, a school psychologist, and finally a clinical psychologist in private practice where she specialized in children's issues. Over the years, she noticed that more and more children were coming to her for anxiety. To help these children, she successfully used cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to teach them skills to decrease their worry. She realized that one of the main concepts in CBT could be taught in a book format and the idea for this book was born. Kathryn O. Galbraith, a successful author, and Dr. Sally had great fun writing this book. In fact, the entire book process from idea to printing has been one of Dr. Sally's most creative times! She is now retired but still volunteers in the schools. Dr. Sally currently writes about kids and anxiety on her blog and for online magazines. Recent articles have been published in Red Tricycle and Parent Map/Seattle. She lives in lovely, green, wet, NW Washington State with her husband and near their two daughters and four grandchildren. She loves to see the grandchildren, play ukulele, hike, bike, kayak, and travel.

Kathryn O. Galbraith is an award-winning author of 22 children's books. She loves working in many different genres with many different characters, but this is her first book about a Worry Monster!Kathryn began writing in the second grade and never stopped. She grew up in Plymouth, Michigan, with four brothers, two birds, one dog, and lots and lots of books. Kathryn always felt - and still feels - lucky to have so many brothers. She felt sorry for girls who only had one or two. When she writes about boy characters, they all seem to have a little bit of Chuck, Tom, Ed, or Jim in them.Today Kathryn lives in the green, rainy, watery, beautiful state of Washington with her husband Steve, their naughty puppy, Duffy, and lots and lots of books. You can find out more about Kathryn and her books at http: //www.kathrynogalbraith.com/home/.

Annabelle Barrett is an illustrator and designer from Bellingham, Washington. She studied art and design at Western Washington University. She loves all things children's books and has loved being a part of this project.