I loved this book. It shows children it’s okay to feel certain emotions and how adult can help them navigate them. I loved the illustrations as well. It’s such a quick and easy read my toddlers will love it!

A warm and approachable picture book that gently explores fear and anxiety. I really appreciated how the book encourages engagement: asking questions, inviting reflection, and offering space for meaningful conversations between children and adults. It's a great tool for parents, teachers, and child psychologists alike.
One thing I kept wondering: the child in the story lives with their father and grandfather—was there a reason behind this setup, or is that just me reading too much into the background?

This was super adorable and a great way to talk about some bigger emotions. My 2.5 yo liked it because we were reading a book together, but this was a little above her comprehension level so it didn’t hold her attention the best. The illustrations were nice and detailed for kids- this is most ideal for ages 3-5 I’d say! Very cute though and definitely worth adding to your shelf!

I loved this book. I have a child that has autism and doesnt at times know how to communicate his emotions.
We read this together on my kindle, which he enjoyed.
I would very much get the hard copy book when its published.

Awesome book! This book is absolutely perfect in every way. The author used a clear plot/story and periodic reflection questions within the book in order to easily get a point across, and it worked well. Having the main character's anxiety come from a storm allows the reader to be able to relate to the story, and also helps them become engaged in the story. It makes them wonder what is going to come next, and how the main character is going to cope with it. Another great thing about this book was the emotion detective notebook. This both added a unique element to the book and subtly equipped readers with a coping skill right off the bat. Additionally, the way the main character used the detective notebook worked perfectly for the story, and taught readers how to create and use their own notebooks. Lastly, the guide at the end of the book for caregivers was a great thing to include, and definitely brought the book full circle. Bravo!!

I Know Scared is a great way for children to explore emotions. I enjoyed the inclusion of different types of emotions, such as worried and surprised, that often have similar physiological reactions to being scared. I was also impressed by the suggested exercises and more information that Lindsay Giroux included in the back of the book. I enjoyed this book and I know children will too!

The illustrations in this book are so adorable! I love the colors used! Very pleasing to the eye and not just burst of color. I think this book is helpful in the sense that it talks about emotions and it even has helpful tips for parents at the end. My only critic is that I prefer books with rhymes or a lyrical flow to the words. I feel like this book doesn’t have that, as much as I tried to read it like I would with a child, it just didn’t flow right. Everything else was perfect and short :)

Thank you to the author,the publisher, and NetGalley for this e-ARC

The illustrations in this book are so adorable! I love the colors used! Very pleasing to the eye and not just burst of color. I think this book is helpful in the sense that it talks about emotions and it even has helpful tips for parents at the end. My only critic is that I prefer books with rhymes or a lyrical flow to the words. I feel like this book doesn’t have that, as much as I tried to read it like I would with a child, it just didn’t flow right. Everything else was perfect and short :)

Thank you to the author,the publisher, and NetGalley for this e-ARC.

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.