This book is a warm and supportive picture book that will guide young children through understanding and coping with anxiety. It uses comforting words and vibrant illustrations. It shares easy, kid-friendly techniques to ease worries and foster inner strength. Overall, a comforting and uplifting resource for both children and the adults who support them.

Thanks to NetGalley and Teacher Created Materials for an advanced reading copy of this book. This book will be released to retailers on August 26, 2025.

Hi, Worry. Bye Worry! Is a chapter book that is perfect for 2nd - 3rd grade readers who are ready to read independently but still like pictures.

This book has great strategies for worry and would be a great resource for teachers and parents to keep handy. A great resource!

I chose to request this book because 1) it caught my attention and made me curious 2) I thought this would be good to have my little one read and would be age appropriate as he has started expressing worries of his own and couldn't make sense of the new feelings and thoughts he's experiencing. Definitely is a great book for kids to read and learn about how to handle their worries and/or anxious feelings. It gives some insight and acknowledgement of children's worries - that we all have them, and how to work through them through positive thinking, deep breathing, relaxing, movement, and/or verbally sharing their thoughts and feelings with someone they feel comfortable opening up to when they are ready. The illustration is also well done and captivating. Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book as an advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

As a 44 year old woman, this is the best book about managing anxiety I have ever read (and I’ve read a lot).
Hi, Worry. Bye, Worry! is accessible to all and with simple language, giving solid tips on how to embrace your worry and improve your skills in moving through your anxiety.
I especially enjoyed the “3 H’’s” which encourages self advocacy to ask do you want to be Heard, Hugged or Helped.
I highly recommend this book for all ages dealing with anxiety.

Thank you to Netgalley for the free arc!

What a wonderful book for kids about worrying! It explains the concept very clearly and gives very practical strategies. With whimsical illustrations, this book is a fun and accessible read, especially for kids in grades 2-4. However, I could see some advanced first graders doing well with it and kids in fifth grade who do not think that the illustrations are too babyish for them. I will recommend this book to my school's psychological and counselor.

Hi, Worry. Bye, Worry! is a children's book about focusing on being present and open to what's around and in front of us. First, the illustrations were so expressive and amazing. They remind me of my favorite cartoons, and I had a lot of fun turning each page to check out the art. Books like this are super helpful for kids to learn how to be reflective, self-aware, and become experts at managing their emotional state. Worry and nervousness can be a difficult emotion for little ones, and this book does a great job of explaining what sensations worry can create in your body, why you might be worried, and how to manage that worry with tips and tricks. There's even part of the book with an explanation of different tools kids can use in order to manage worry, like deep breathing, writing your feelings down, or focusing on the present by identifying sensations. The encouraging and helpful nature of the book is excellent - and I would definitely recommend for any library.

5 out of 5 stars!

Big thank you to Elizabeth Verdick, Olivia Rae, Steve Mark, Free Spirit Publishing, and NetGalley for the opportunity to take an early look at Hi, Worry. Bye, Worry! I will share my review to retail sites upon release. ✨

This book is absolutely gorgeous. The illustrations are beautiful, and the message to kids is gentle and informative. I’m a therapist, and I work with children. I would definitely use this book in session with a child with anxiety and recommend it to their parents as well. I am very impressed with the language and easy to understand descriptions, providing validation to children as well as problem solving. I’ll definitely read more books by this author!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this opportunity!

Hi, Worry. Bye, Worry! is a supportive and engaging guide that helps kids ages 6 to 9 understand and manage anxious thoughts using simple, healthy strategies like deep breathing, movement, creativity, and talking to trusted adults. With a light tone and fun illustrations, it encourages emotional resilience and makes handling worry feel a little easier.

This is such a fun and helpful read for kids—and honestly, even for adults. It’s a practical, accessible tool that explains why we worry, how worry can actually be useful, and most importantly, how to process those feelings in healthy ways. I especially loved the suggestions for creativity and movement, and there were some wonderfully original ideas too (I’ll definitely be making a comfort cave). The “Three H” strategy is solid advice at any age, and the glossary is a great touch for helping little ones understand big words. The illustrations are bright, adorable, and perfectly in sync with the story. I’m so glad books like this exist to spark important conversations with kids about emotional well-being.

I am a preschool teacher and I absolutely love the message of this book! The pictures are inviting and the message is clear. I think this book is a very relateable way to explain anxiety to kids and I love that it teaches strategies for dealing with it. I will definitely be getting a copy of this book for my classroom and telling my other parent friends about it. Five stars! I received a free copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

This 90 page book explains to elementary school children how to deal with worries when they inevitably come. Enhanced by illustrations the authors teach methods of welcoming worries, how to deal with them, how to say "bye worries" and how to be prepared for new worries to come.

This book holds so many practical ideas that are great for children to implement into their lives. The illustrations help remember some of the key concepts (like worries being like a T-Rex who comes with its little trolly and invades your house). I think it is a great tool parents can use if they notice that their kids struggle with worries and how to handle them.

I picked up this book because I'm an anxious person and I wanted to see what tips and tricks were included in this.

I think this will be really helpful with kids and help become better at coping with anxiety as they age. This books provides examples of what worry may look like, how to identify it, and offers ideas on how to ease the worry away or seek help.

There are fun illustration in here that I think will really resonate with children. The tone is great and it's the perfect length to keeps kid's attention.

This book actually gave some good advice that I can take into my daily life for when I get nervous. So this will definitely help children, those who get worried easily and even those who don’t. It’s informative and helpful but also easy to understand and with engaging pictures with a cute art style to keep engaged

This inspiring children’s fiction book allows for children to comprehend that their worries are normal. It introduces the themes and ideas of anxiety, and that anxiety’s presents is normal, no matter your age or who you are.

The innocent drawings allow for an immersive though also informative experience, teaching children how to cope with their worries and manage anxiety all throughout their lives.

Hi, Worry. Bye, Worry! Is a bright and clear explanation of worry and nerves. This will serve as a much needed addition to my public library collection. There are clear examples of what worry might look like on your face, or sound like in your head. This can help readers slow down and identify their feeling, and then be able to take the proper steps towards dealing with it in a healthy way. The illustrations throughout keep it light and silly, while the language remains comforting and encouraging. This lays out such a healthy relationship with complicated feelings. It welcomes children to invite their feelings in, giving them the opportunity to truly feel and process them, before being able to genuinely and truly move past them. While our instincts might tell us to bury certain emotions, having it written out in such plain language not to do so can be wildly helpful. In such a fast paced world, this is a massively important, not needlessly overcomplicated title. It breaks down the physical sensations worry might bring on, and walks kids through steps of what to do next. This advice is massive and may not be available to every kid otherwise.

Great resource, not only for kids but for anyone! This is a very approachable way to explain what the feeling of worrying is and then plenty of methods to address it when it happens. The imagery is really fun and there are great examples and actionable activities to do and learn. It even explains why worry is useful and what your body is trying to tell you. There are representations of children from different cultures, environments, and physical abilities to be relatable to everyone and even gives suggestions that don’t just rely on a present parental figure to cope. Parents would benefit from reading it so they know how to approach and support, especially with the 3 H method. Great for ages 3+.

The kindle version doesn’t translate very well since the graphics have some of the text in them sometimes it came out jumbled but the regular version with the illustrations is awesome!