Ruby's Worry follows a happy girl called Ruby, who develops a worry which grows and grows no matter how much she tries to ignore it, until it takes over her whole life.
Anxiety is a difficult subject to talk about with young children - it's so big and abstract that it can be hard from them to understand, beyond the physical symptoms which they can easily mistake for being unwell. Ruby's Worry is a clever, refreshing approach to dealing with the worries that make us anxious, told with bright, engaging art work in a way that even young children will understand.
This is a story I could see working really well at my Rainbows group, so I'm sure I will be borrowing it from the library again when a meeting calls for it - especially as there are activity pages to go with it on the Bloomsbury website.
Ruby's Worry is written and illustrated by Tom Percival
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