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Ruby's Worry

 

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Ruby's Worry
from Tom Percival
32 pages
1st. published 12 July 2018
ISBN: 9781408892152 - Paperback-
Bloomsbury Children's Books

A magical, very soulful, intense picture book
about the feeling of worry,
how it builds up and how to deal with it so that it becomes small again and not overpowering
for children from +4 years
Description from the Publisher
"Be open, be honest, be you! Big Bright Feelings for little people.
Ruby loves being Ruby. Until, one day, she finds a worry. At first it's not such a big worry, and that's all right, but then it starts to grow. It gets bigger and bigger every day and it makes Ruby sad. How can Ruby get rid of it and feel like herself again?
A perceptive and poignant story that is a must-have for all children's bookshelves. From Tom Percival's bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, this is the perfect book for discussing childhood worries and anxieties, no matter how big or small they may be."

Actually, Ruby was a fun-loving, curious, happy child. Her life was beautiful and she knew how to enjoy it. But then she discovers a concern that can be recognized in the book as a yellow scribbled, somewhat round creature, similar to a ball of wool. At first, the worry is so tiny that Ruby doesn't notice it, but over time she took up more and more space, got bigger and bigger, and she followed Ruby at every turn. No matter where and what she was doing, the worry was always there. Ruby is surprised that only she saw the concern. Neither the classmates nor the teacher seemed to see her and even though the little one was aware that the concern was always with her and getting bigger and bigger she tried to ignore it. Unfortunately unsuccessful, because Ruby was less and less fun. In the past, she liked to swing so much, but now she didn't enjoy it any more than cycling or playing the piano. The worry worried Ruby.Worrying about the worry is the worst thing you can do because it makes the worry much, much bigger. Ruby's concern is also getting bigger and bigger takes up so much space that there is hardly any room for anything else. My reading children are afraid that the worry will eventually eat Ruby up or envelop her completely. They are worried about Ruby, because we don't know what that concern entails. It's just there and it's getting bigger and bigger. But the story takes an unexpected turn. Ruby discovers a boy who seems just as sad as she does, and she sees a worry next to him that looks almost the same as hers, only his is blue. For Ruby this is the salvation, because to see that there are other people who are also accompanied by a worry does not make her so lonely anymore. She sits down with the boy, gets into conversation with him and with the conversation she notices how the worry has become smaller. She realizes that you just have to talk about it to shrink the worry. Soon the worries of the boy and his new girlfriend Ruby are so tiny that they no longer perceive them. And if they should become visible again, then the two now know what they have to do. Talk. Talking makes worries stay tiny and shrink. Everyone has worries at some time, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes you don't dare to tell others about your worries and then what happened to Ruby happens, the worry takes up too much space in life and makes you very sad. That it is better to talk about it and not to give so much space to the worry, this is illustrated very clearly in this picture book not only in the story but above all in the pictures.
To see how the small worry becomes bigger and bigger is very impr essive for the children and also a Haha experience. Visualizing something you don't see helps children to understand a lot. You could see very clearly how it began to work in the minds of the little ones among my reading children. With the larger ones from about 5 years, however, nothing was added that the story does not tell. What was Ruby's concern? Are there worries that are there and you can't name them. Are there feelings that are just suddenly there, for no apparent reason. Make you sad without knowing why? Some children knew this, but after a while were caught up in other feelings or experiences that gave no room for worry. Some had worries and turned to their parents or friends with the feeling and noticed exactly what Ruby had experienced. They were again lightly heart-hearted. This book sensitizes, shows that it is completely normal to have worries once. That it is not nice to have worries, but that there is a very simple means to dispel the worries, not to make them overpowering. Talking is the magic word. We all know that this is not always easy. Perhaps this picture book will help to encourage people to seek dialogue in order not to let the worry become too great. Once again, Tom Percival has succeeded in packaging a difficult topic, child-friendly and vivid in a story with expressive images without creating heaviness. A really important picture book that encourages conversations and also inspires creative thinking about worries. Paint your concern. What is your concern? What do you imagine your concern look like? Can you remember the last time you were worried? How did that feel? How would you have drawn them? Can you name worries, what other feelings do you associate with worry? Maybe tremors, stomach aches, the feeling that everything around you sounds different...
Everyone will be able to supplement it. The more we know about this feeling, the better.
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