Wemberly Worried

Wemberly Worried is a great book for any student starting a new school year! Also, it's a great fit book for children who worry. Kevin Henkes is a wonderful author for many reasons, and this book is one of his best! First, this book can teach students not to worry about things they can not control.

The book Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes is a good book for the early developing reader or for story-telling to your young child with anxiety about school. The book focuses on a little mouse girl who, as the title states,
worries about everything. She worries about the jungle gym at the park, her rabbit doll, and many other everyday occurrences. Henkes uses very colorful and descriptive pictures so as to help out young readers make a correlation between the words and their meanings. Henkes also uses repetition to hold the young readers attention and to emphasize the fact that Wemberly worries about
everything. The book gives children a good view of school and makes them excited to attend school, have fun, and make new friends. This book is good for the parents who may be worried that their kids will not like school or for kids
who have already expressed their fears of leaving their parents for school. However, the book is not suited for kids that have already experienced school and have realized that it is not very scary and that they like it. All in all, Wemberly Worried is an excellent book to buy to ease your child's anxiety about school or other things they may worry about.

Wemberly Worried is the epic tale of Wemberly and her doll Petal. The adventure begins with our hero, Wemberly the mouse, and her array of pre-school worries. Wemberly worries about everything and anything despite her parents and grandmother�s best efforts. The climax of the story is her first day of school her greatest worry yet. It concludes with her revalation when she meets her soulmate in Jewel and her partner in crime, Nibblet. Henkes� use of colors and humor in the illustrations make it a must have for any child. His use of font size emphasizes the magnittude of the worry. The story teaches a life lesson, that there is a friend out there for every child no matter how worried or different they are. This book is espically good if your child is a worrier and a mouse, yet, is still a great story for those human children out there. Henkes� use of dialoge outside of the story help the story devolope into the timeless classic Wemberly Worried. The most interesting is Wemberly�s laid back roller blade wearing Grandmother who is known for her shirt with �Go with the flow� written on the front. We look forward to Henkes� next ingenius work.

As a librarian in training I have come across many books dealing with this subject of going to school. When I came across this book, I knew it would be perfect for children getting ready to make that big step into a classroom. Children may be excited about going to school, but they will worry about what everyone else is doing and whether or not they are going to fit in. Wemberly looks like a normal little (mouse) girl and we can see she will fit in fine at school. But she worries about everything -- until she gets there. Children will see that there is nothing to worry about and that as bad as they think things will be, everyone's a little nervous on the first day of school.
Kevin Kenkes has done a wonderful job with this book -- as always.

I really disliked this book. We have read others by the author that we've liked. While I know what his message was here, I really felt the "school will be okay" message was overwhelmed by the pages upon pages of things to worry about. My daughter is 2.5 and having trouble adjusting to preschool. This book seemed to concern her quite a bit. Another little boy I read it to asked me WHY did Wemberly worry so much. She worries about the way the playground equipment is put together, the crack in the wall at home, and so on. I think the book created more concern than it took away. A much better book (in my opinion), on this same topic is The Kissing Hand. My daughter has responded nicely to that one, and it seems to be helping. She referred to it today as she went off to school without tears (a big achievement around here)!

I read Wemberly Worried. The reason I liked Wemberly Worried and would recommend it is because it is funny. It made me laugh and I almost got the hiccups. In the book I read about when Wemberly thought something would come out of the living room wall but nothing can come out of a wall.

Wemberly's grandma may be my favorite character in this book. Her flower child attitude is cute. Wemberly and her skepticism about the world around her is sweet and I think all little kids have some amount of caution about doing something new. As it turns out, Wemberly decides pre-school is great and it shows little ones that trying new things usually turns out wonderfully.

Add Wemberly to the long list of Kevin Henkes' loveable characters. She worries about lots of things, but finds in the end, that her biggest worry (SCHOOL!) is nothing to worry about. Children of all ages will identify with Wemberly's knack for concern, but will enjoy experiencing the lovely way the adults in her life help her cope. Thank you Kevin Henkes, for another book about real feelings disguised in adorable entertainment.

This book is great for elementary aged children! I always read it at the beginning of the school year to teach about being worried about the first few days of school. This book is also great for children with anxiety to learn how to cope with it. As always, Kevin Henkes provides great vocabulary and this book easily lends itself for comprehension questions.