This was an absolutely great read! I’m nit sure if there are more find clue books like this but this one was perfect. Definitely a book I wish I would have had for my daughter when she was younger. It can help kids articulate how they’re feeling but naming the physical feelings they might have with those emotions. I enjoyed it. Would recommend it as a simple tool for teaching kids emotions!

My 6 year old read this and will be reviewing.
“It’s a good book and easy to read. I have some of the same fears and worries for my cat. I would read it again someday.”

This is a gentle and thoughtful book that introduces young children to the concept of emotions in a way that is both accessible and comforting. It serves as a wonderful starting point for parents to open up conversations with their children about feelings, helping them recognize, name, and express what they're going through.

The simple yet effective storytelling makes it easy for little ones to relate, while the informative section at the end offers valuable guidance for parents on how to support emotional development.

"I Know Scared" by Lindsay N. Giroux is a wonderful book that helps children to identify the feelings on scared, worried, and surprised in themselves and others. It's part of the "We Find Feelings Clues" series, and it uses simple visual and context clues to help children decode what they're experiencing. The book also has a four-page guide for parents and caregivers in the back that explains the child psychology behind the book and gives helpful tips for helping children to understand their complex emotions.

I read this book with my five-year-old, who is grappling with "big feelings," and I can already hear her using new words like "anxious" and "surprised" where she would usually just say "scared." She often gets frustrated when she can't express exactly what she means and feels misunderstood, and this book has helped her to match the right words to her feelings. It's also been helpful for me to model the right expressions and words for her. She has a habit of creeping up and startling me, and I've also made a point of saying "You surprised me!" or "You startled me!" so that we can differentiate between the feelings and what may cause them.

The pictures were really nice in the book, and I love that the story focuses on a dad and grandfather, rather than a traditional mom and dad. It's nice to see representation of different types off families and the normalization of that in books for children that have nothing to do with families.

I would recommend this book to parents and caregivers of all preschool children, as it really helps them to express what they're feeling so that you can talk about feelings with a better shared vocabulary. I look forward to checking out other books in this series as well.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC.

This series is so good! It's written in a way that explains so well the feelings, that my 5 yo's can understand and identify them, and I too can take from this and manage my emotions.
In the case of "Scared", my kids are dealing with scary situations like thunder and big changes, and with this book they could easly identify their emotions and how to deal with them.
It has within the story recommendations on how to manage emotions and also at the end it has an explanation for the adults of how to handle and help kids with big emotions and how to behave oneself when this is happening. I extremely recommend this series to anyone.

I know Scared is a children's picture book that I was able to read an ARC version of, thanks to NetGalley.

I absolutely loved reading this book. It represents an effective way to help children process difficult emotions, coupled with a brilliant story about a daughter getting advice from her father and grandfather (which is rare to see in stories).
It also doesn't dumb down the ideas too much, which is common with these kinds of stories, and acknowledges that children can have a wide range of fears without diminishing them.
Additionally, I love how, at the end of the story, it provides resources to help adults use the story's method to help children.
Deffo would reread and use it as a tool for the children I work with. Plus I am a sucker for a story with a cat 😺!

This was a really educational read for kids to learn how to listen to their body to learn to put a name to what they're feeling. It also teaches them to ask adults for help when they're feeling badly so that they can start to feel better. The illustrations were really cute and I loved the different emotions shown throughout the story - fear, anxiety, surprise. The only thing that sort of took me out of the story, and that I think would be difficult for kids to follow potentially, is that it kept bouncing back and forth between the current predicament - a storm - and prior times the child felt the feelings they're currently feeling. As an adult, I understand why - it's showing us how she's detecting her current emotions, indicating previous times she felt these feelings and what they meant, so that she can relate it to the current events. But I think as a child, it would be difficult to have the logic to follow through that thought process.

This was such an approachable story on fears and anxieties, along with tricks to feel better. The illustrations were also very cute. Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for letting me read!

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy of "I Know Scared" by Lindsay N. Giroux.

This is a very informative and educational children's book on identifying your feelings. This would be a great tool for parents to talk to their children.

Great book for parents and caregivers! This ended up exceeding the expectations I originally had for it. I loved how just a simple children’s book was able to introduce its young readers to so many important life skills in so few pages. I also loved that some parts were interactive making it easy to start a conversation about what they just learned. It’s always nice when given the opportunity to bridge the gap between the adult and child’s thought process. This book will help the adult to understand how the child thinks and why. There were also other great life lessons packed into the story as well. The little girl in the book uses all of her different senses to identify her surrounding environment and also uses different propositions while explaining what she sees. The author also discusses feelings which is so important for a child to be able to identify others feelings as well as articulate their own. This book would be a great edition to any school or home library.

Wow this is brilliant. I love the idea of the feelings notebook and the detective concept; such a clever idea and something that would be useful for everyone to practice. The illustrations work perfectly, and there are so many good and helpful ideas that are given for dealing with fear and anxiety. So thankful to have read an advanced copy thanks to Netgalley and I hope that it helps many readers understand their feelings better.

I Know Scared is designed to help young children make sense of big feelings and understand anxiety. Through the narrator's eyes, we learn coping mechanisms to help with anxiety and nervousness. This book is unique in that it shows the main character, a girl, living with dad and grandpa. I enjoyed the unique perspective shown in this book. It would be a good fit in preschool-kindergarten classrooms.

Thank you to NetGalley and Teacher Created Materials for an ARC of this book. Opinions expressed are my own.

This book was purposeful, meaningful, and gentle. Such a sweet book with the right length and age appropriate.

Overall theme and Vibe: hopeful, informative, lighthearted, reflective, fast-paced, and very cute!
Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Star Rating: 5.0/5.0

This is the second book I’ve read in the “Feelings Dectective” series by this author. I loved the first one and how simple the scenarios were, so that they are relatable to all children and parents reading together. I liked how this family appeared to be a single dad, his daughter, and the grandfather. It helps to show varied types of families in books like this, whether it be single parents, multiple generations in a household, or anything else!

The art is very sweet and descriptive too. I really enjoyed the end sections for parents. It was easy to read and very concise. It would be ideal for a handout to go home with a child client after discussing these emotions in a session. I look forward to any other books in the series and cannot wait to have the physical books in my hands for my therapy office soon!

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and author for this eARC - and for inviting me to review this new installment to the series.

The book was beautifully written. Overall, I did really enjoy it. Thank you for this advance reading copy!

"I Know Scared" is a lovely children's book about a girl who notices everything around her and how she feels. She gets into a situation where she is scared. The pictures in the book are very cute and colorful, making it fun to look at each page. The book also has questions that help kids talk about their own feelings. It teaches kids not to worry too much about "what ifs" in life and to focus on understanding their feelings instead.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A great guide to helping young children recognize and name emotions! The book points out differences in scared, anxiety, and surprise.

I love when children’s books include helpful guides for caregivers like this one did.

The illustrations were cute and my children appreciated the colors and style. I like the interactive questions throughout the book to help children name feelings.

A powerful and relatable story by Lindsay N. Giroux with detailed, bright and colorful illustrations by Alicia Teba Godoy, which complement the story perfectly! I loved the character designs as well and how a non-traditional family (child, father and grandfather and a cute pet cat) was depicted here. While the topic of the book is hard, it talks about fear, anxiety and uncertainty very well.

There are details to be found in each spread will keep the kids engaged too. I found this to be a very helpful book talking about these topics and how a child as well as an adult will find this story relatable and personal.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is great for teaching children about feelings, how to recognize them, and how to overcome some feelings (like the feeling of being scared). The artwork was done well. It was easy and clear to see the little girl go through different emotions. I loved how involved the adults in the book were. This modeled a great, trusting relationship between the child and adult.

I Know Scared is a wonderful and well-written book that addresses being afraid, anxious, and unsure. I could probably write a followup book talking about all the reasons why I loved this, but I’ll make a numbered list instead!
1. This has wonderful representation of a dad/grandpa being the main source of comfort . Almost every children’s book I’ve read has mom being the primary caregiver, so I love when dads get some credit.
2. The fears addressed in this are legitimate. They’re things I, as an adult, catch myself being anxious about. Where is the cat? What if he gets outside? What if a tree falls in the storm? How is tomorrow going to go? Fears in children’s books are often boiled down to more elementary (but very real) concerns. The dark, monsters under the bed, etc. I adore that children are given freedom to acknowledge big fears in this.
3. The illustrations are not overdone and don’t distract from the story. The author and illustrator created something very cohesive, and the reader is left with a clean/easy to digest book.
4. The coping tools given are amazing. What can your child do? What can you do to help? Well it gives us some tips, and I’m grateful.
Overall I can’t recommend this enough, and I look forward to trying more books from this author/publisher/illustrator.