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The Anger Volcano - A Book About Anger For Kids

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I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Kids get angry by so many things. And, they haven't always yet developed ways to deal with the anger. This book provides some great tips. The text is catchy and fun. A great read!

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Anger management for kids with catchy rhymes.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the eARC.

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Learning self control, and anger management as a child can be really hard, and this book does a great job at explaining what to do when you feel the anger bubbling up. Aside from giving reading management exercises, this book also teaches breathing techniques and counting backwards. I feel like this book could be very helpful to young children, and would certainly recommend that most classrooms have a copy.

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This is a simple, rhyming book for children about feeling angry and how to control your angry feelings without erupting like a volcano. Counting backwards, taking slow breaths, and other anger control techniques are introduced in a simple way.

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What a great visual story for kids to understand how their emotions are like a fiery rumbly volcano. I think it lacks the use of colors, but still catches attention of my kids. Maybe kids will color it in to keep it visiually entertaining to them. The rhyming in this book helps the story flow. The suggestions for dealing with anger targets children ages six and up.

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I didn't enjoy this book, the art is not really ideal for a Childrens' book its very plain and almost ugly. The writing itself was annoyingly repetitive, the whole book was basically terrible “rhymes” coupled with the main line of the book about counting to disperse your anger.

I know that Childen's books often rhyme and are repetitive, I know this. However, while others leave the feeling of trying to hammer home an ideal or moral this just felt lazy.


Buy, Borrow or Bin Verdict: Bin

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This is a good basic book about how to control anger for children. Using a volcano as an explanation as to how anger can erupt from people is easy for kids to understand and I think will make it easier to discuss. The calming techniques used in the book are doable and there are a variety of them so that kids don't only have one suggestion to try. I only gave it four stars because the story rhyming was a bit corny, but I understand why they did it. I think there could have been a bit more to it.

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This is a brilliant calm down book, for kids who have problems managing their anger. It has illustrations that can be colored to help the child to be be distracted and remain in control . There are also some calming techniques, that can be used, if a situation arises, where they feel like they are about to erupt!

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I requested this book via Netgalley, as I’ve started reading books to my grandson before bedtime. He particularly enjoys books which we can relate to and The Anger Volcano is no exception. With simple illustrations that convey the words of the poetic writing, my grandson related to the story of the angry volcano and what to do when his anger bubbled to the surface. An easy read that showed my grandson that he’s not alone and that there’s things he can do to control his anger.

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``The Anger Volcano`` is a book that offers a few solutions for the children that can not manage strong feelings like anger.
Anger is a normal emotion, but most of the times children do not know how to manage it. When kids get mad, they use unapropriate words, thet hit other children or to destroy things they found near them.
The rhymes from the book can help children to memories a few easy solution. What they can do when they feel it is about to explode?
``Try counting backwards from ten or twenty.
Try to spell 'experimentally'.
Take five deep breaths and blow out gently``
This are easy techniques children can use so they may calm down before doing something that can not be undone.
What I liked the most is the fact that in the end the book opens the opportunity to talk about other strategies children know.

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The Anger Volcano is a book for younger kids that using rhyming language to teach about the dangers of losing your temper and 'exploding’, how to recognise when anger begins boiling, and how to cool it down again by engaging the 'thinking brain’ with tasks like counting backward, spelling a complicated word, and taking several deep slow breaths. The volcano analogy is perfect. I like that the end suggests practising the techniques when calm, to get the feel, and gain familiarity. The only downside is that it's in black & white rather than colour illustrations. My cubs loved it though!

A great asset to helping younger kids learn to deal with anger.

***Many thanks to Netgalley and Tigerace Books for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

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This book has a great concept. As a mom of a child with SPD, I am constantly searching for ways to help her cope. Putting coping skills in the form of memorizable rhymes is brilliant! However, I felt that many of the rhymes didn't apply to my child, so while the idea is great, the book is not particularly relevant or useful.

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4.5★
“Next time you’re about to blow your stack,
Try to hold the lava back,
Practice the tricks to learn the knack…

Try counting backwards from ten or twenty.
Try to spell 'experimentally'.
Take five deep breaths and blow out gently.”

Simple, three-line rhymes like these on each page, illustrated with some intricate black and white drawings, explain clearly what it feels like when your head’s about to explode because people or circumstances are driving you nuts!

We’ve all been there and felt like that, and some of us have never quite figured out how not to blow up and make matters worse.

After all, standing in a lava flow, as one of the pictures shows, isn’t very comfortable for the person who’s at the foot of the volcano!

I know one little boy who says “Angus” (from the movie “Inside Out”) is angry in his head when he’s getting cranky. He’s found a way to express how he’s feeling using some outside help.

While this seems very simple and basic, I bet there are plenty of kids who would benefit from comparing their frustration and impatience with a volcano about to erupt. And the pictures showing the top of a head with all kinds of conflicting arrows and Yes No spilling out is probably just what they feel like.

This may help them describe how they feel and it may give them a little something to settle those feelings down.

[This is another children’s book that should find its way into the hands of some of the adults who don’t seemed to have learned how to behave, too! But I digress.]

Thanks to NetGalley and Tigerace books for the preview copy from which I’ve quoted.

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I absolutely adore this book! As did my 6 year old Daughter. The first time we read it as soon as I was finished reading she asked me to read it again. She said she loves out it makes her think and helped when she starts getting frustrated. She said she thinks about the book and smiles. Lol
I highly recommend this book!

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I received a copy of this little book from net galley to review. It wasn't too long. I showed it to my son who indicated that he thought it was good although should be aimed at children a little older than recommended - more suitable for ages 7-12. We both enjoyed the format of rhyming words to help remember what had been written as well as the activities suggested to distract from or reduce feelings of anger. All in all a helpful piece of work

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As a parent of three kids under 5, my house can get a bit emotional at time.

All kids will erupt. The question is how can you as a parent help understand, diffuse, and learn from the experience. This book helps connect emotions, feelings, and resolution all together.

This book's intent is to recognize the anger and helps parent resolve the situation. It rhymes well, both for the parent reading but is easy enough for the kids to guess the word.

Visualizing anger as a volcano helps to connect their emotions with what they are feeling in their gut. There are practical advice from counting backwards, taking deep breathes, and trying to spell a long word that seeks to be part of your child's toolkit.

Overall, worthy topic, excellent execution, that is easy for my kids to internalize.

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This book was cute, but I was hoping it would go a little bit into why we get angry as children and how important it is to talk to an adult. Instead, it just makes little rhymes and offers a couple of basic calming-down techniques before mentioning briefly in passing at the end that the child should talk to someone about what made them angry.

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This book works. It rhymes well, is easy to understand, and I think kids will get the lesson its teaching. However, look at the illustrations. If it had better illustrations, or full color illustrations I think it would work better. Maybe those are to come. I was reading a digital galley that had some issues. Overall I like the story.

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The Anger Volcano- A Book About Anger for Kids is a helpful and approachable book on anger for children. The volcano helps them visualize when their anger is building, and the book has tips for how to handle anger, as well as reminders to practice the strategies at the end. Cute, engaging illustrations are included as well.

Thank you to Amanda Greenslade, the publisher, and Netgalley, for the opportunity to read and review this book.

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This book is like a poem, rather than a story. I expected a story, so I was a bit surprised. I liked the fact that the words rhyme, and the message is good; however, for the same reason (author tried to rhyme), the choice of words can be a bit confusing or hard to understand for small kids. I have a 5 year old child who has been dealing with anger issues, and I thought this book would be great; but it was a bit hard for him to understand. I think he would prefer an easy to understand story to well themed poem-like book. I would say target audience is 2nd or 3rd grade and above.

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