Mindful Bea and the Worry Tree

Mindful Bea and the Worry Tree introduces us to Bea, a young girl who is very anxious about her birthday party. What if there isn’t cake? What if her friends don’t like her? What if everything goes wrong? When Bea becomes overwhelmed by her anxiety, she runs outside to her favorite tree and focuses on her breath to calm her thinking down.
Beautiful, lyrical language paired with lovely illustrations make for a wonderful way to read about and discuss anxiety in children.
Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read and review this title. All opinions are my own.

This is a great book for teaching children the basics of anxiety and breathing exercises. Using the willow tree branches to represent how anxiety can grow and make you feel trapped is a visual that I think can be understood by the children this book is written for. I also really liked when Bea was using her breathing and mindfulness strategies to calm herself and take on the situation causing her stress. I would highly recommend this book to parents, teachers, and librarians. I plan to use it in my own work as a school psychologist when working with students with anxiety and difficulties self-calming.

Finding your center is at the heart of this story. Bea, a child suffering from anxiety disorder, has a panic attack on, what I assume, is her birthday. her friends are coming over and she's in a real tizzy about it. But she runs to her favorite place and calms herself down. I think this book might be useful for some children. It teaches them to slow down and breathe and let the stress go. Illustrations are lovely.

I really liked the artistic style of this book including the message and the delivery of the illustrations. Great job overall.

I read this book with my grade school child who also has worries and anxiety. We found this book to be relatable and easy to read. Bea's worry tree was an excellent way to show the heaviness people feel when they have worries they "carry around". It was a great way of showing what anxiety can feel like and also shared excellent breathing and coping techniques to help calm down when things feel like 'too much''. This was engaging and perfect for an elementary aged child to relate with and also learn from. Thank you to NetGalley and Magination Press for sharing a copy of this book with us, all opinions are our own.

This story is a nice little rhyming piece about a little girl suffering from anxiety. What’s nice about this story (compared to others regarding mental health and anxiety( is that it shows the reader the constant ‘what if-ing’ people struggling with anxiety may go through and the method that Bea uses to overcome this. The rhyming allows the story to flow. It is definitely a suitable level to use in primary classrooms - Ks1 and Ks2.

A lovely story about a little girl who worries too much, so much so that her worry tree grows. A great story to tach children about anxiety and how to cope with it, the rhymes to manage it are lovely and will really help children. The artwork is absolutely beautiful this is a wonderful book.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

Bea has anxiety. She is more than just worried that no-one will show up to her birthday party, she is panicking and overthinking. She wants mum to cancel the party because she thinks that will get rid of her anxiety but mum knows that's not true.

Bea works through all her feelings, everything gets faster and faster, she remembers things she has to do and then children start arriving for her party, her worry tree is still there but she has a good time.

I think it's a good introduction for children to recognise the symptoms of anxiety in their own bodies, e.g. feeling sick, a sore tummy, thinking of all the things that can go wrong, but also to see that if we put things in place before certain events then we can manage and once they happen they're almost never as bad as we think they're going to be and we can have a good time.

I would use this with children aged 4-8 years.

I liked the message in this book. Children can use strategies to overcome anxiety. The story is compelling and relatable. I enjoyed the writing. The illustrations are absolutely adorable.

I loved this book. I’ve been looking for some children’s books that deal with anxiety and this was perfect.

I suffered from anxiety as a child (still do) and I worry that this may be passed on to my children. They are still too young to understand and this book perfectly goes through the worries and feelings that a young child may have, and clearly suggests how breathing might help ease these worries.

A beautiful children’s book to deal with a serious and hard to understand issue for children.