Book Title: The Don’t Worry Book
Author: Todd Parr
Published: 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Number of Pages: 32
Recommended Age Group: Infant/Toddler, Preschool
What makes The Don’t Worry Book a great book?
Subject/Theme
Written by best-selling author Todd Parr, The Don’t Worry Book is one of the latest empowering children’s books from his popular series. As you may imagine by the title, the book’s theme serves as an introduction to kids about worrying and ways to overcome it.
What makes Parr’s work so special is the way he covers an important subject with great simplicity. Each page contains a single sentence and educates kids on reasons they may have occasional anxiety. The goal of The Don’t Worry Book is to show young audiences that having worries is normal and there are ways to help them go away. Parr gives a number of ways kids can reduce worries, like talking to someone special, taking deep breaths and dancing. The final page does a great job of summarizing the book’s message and follows a familiar pattern of other Todd Parr books.
It can be difficult to find anxiety books for kids that cover the subject at the right level. Parr does an excellent job of creating a tone and layout that is ideal for children under the age of six.
Illustrations
The illustrations of Todd Parr’s books are a large reason why they’ve become so popular. Characterized by their trademark bright colors and child-like drawings, Parr’s works are great at grabbing your attention.
While The Don’t Worry Book doesn’t have defined characters, each page contains drawings of people featuring a variety of colors and uniqueness. This style is seen immediately when looking at the cover art and is maintained throughout the book.
The popularity of Todd Parr’s illustrations helped him create his own video series, along with short films for Sesame Street! To learn more about Parr’s video series, check out his video page.
Popular Book Series
The Don’t Worry Book is one of more than fifty works in author Todd Parr’s collection. The majority of these books follow a similar template and cover important themes like emotions, family, and protecting the environment. Their simple structure is great for toddlers and preschoolers, and also serve as good options for new readers as well.
For fans of Parr’s other works in the series, we certainly recommend giving The Don’t Worry Book a read!