Calma Llama: Anxiety is a Bummer

by Emily Hayes

Calma Llama loses his cool and learns anti-anxiety methods in this new animal adventure of the best-selling series, Calma Llama!Anxiety can be overwhelming and often shows up without warning. Follow Calma Llama as he learns strategies that prevent anxiety from taking over.Over the ocean, way up high Where snowy mountains touch the sky,I live with my family in a herd.I’m called Calma Llama, the third. Emily Haye’s calming rhymes are engaging and full of comfort~

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2021

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Reviews

[Jamie Bee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oversimplified Resolutions

Like so many children's books that attempt to teach, this one seems well intentioned. But certain issues just rankled. This book is written rhyming and close-rhyming couplets. It appears to be written for relatively young children, but the author does use the word “anxiety” frequently, which such younger children may not know of at all or only have a vague knowledge of. I thought it odd that the author chose to say that the llama became anxious and angry suddenly—after not having been that way at all—and was so all the time, easily provoked at the slightest of circumstances. Usually, when a person or a child becomes like that suddenly, there is an instigating event. I also thought the book was too simplistic in its resolutions and solutions. While the three suggestions might, indeed, be helpful for promoting a calm mind, they most certainly would not take everything “negative” away instantly, as the author says. That could make a child for whom these solutions do not work as they do in the book feel as though they've failed. I don't like when children's books take a complex subject and oversimplify it, making the solutions seem easy and life a bed of roses once the easy solutions are put into place. Neither is correct and could be damaging to the young reader who has a different result.

I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.

[Marichus Real · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living in anger doesn’t help, nor living with anxiety, so better do something to make them disappeared. Blow a dandelion, squeeze a soft toy, think of a calm environment, breathe deeply and let them go away. That’s the lesson Calma Lama learn from his friend Alex. A lesson that will be helpful to help children with anxiety and fear issues.
The illustrations are very nice and relaxing with all the green and flowers.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Sindy Castellanos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Charming story, beautifully illustrated and expressed in verse, that can help children between 7 and 10 years old to be aware of their feelings of anxiety and doubt, showing breathing techniques and exercises so that they can overcome and direct them.
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Encantador cuento, bellamente ilustrado y expresado en verso, que puede ayudar a los niños entre 7 y 10 años a ser conscientes de sus sentimientos de ansiedad y duda, mostrando técnicas de respiración y ejercicios para que logren superarlos y dirigirlos.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spectacular

We read 2 books every night, and this one just keeps coming up as one of our favorites. It's cute, clever, and has a beautiful message. Such a wonderful book!