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Sunday Scaries

by Debra Kempf Shumaker Publisher: KNOPF

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When Monday looms over the weekend

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AlbakiReads Editorial

When Monday looms over the weekend

Josie’s weekend is filled with favorite family rituals, from movie night to pancakes, until thoughts of Monday bring on the “Sunday scaries.” The book frames that familiar shift from weekend comfort to week-ahead worry through a child’s experience, and presents practical ways Josie and her parents can respond to the anxiety. Its focus on naming a feeling and finding ways to manage it gives the story a clear emotional subject for family reading and conversation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 4–8 encountering worries about Monday or the week ahead
  • Families looking for a picture book about anxiety and practical coping methods

Themes

Sunday anxietyAnticipation of the week aheadFamily routinesManaging emotions

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Book overview

Do you dread Mondays? Does the thought fill you with anxiety? Then this humorous picture book on tackling anxiety about the week ahead might be just what you need to get rid of the Sunday scaries.

Josie loves the weekend. She gets to do all her favorite things with mom and dad like movie night and eating the fluffiest pancakes ever. But then it starts. At first, it's just a tickle in her throat. A wisp of a shadow behind her back . . . MONDAY is coming. Josie has a case of the Sunday scaries, maybe her parents too.

A playful exploration of the anxiety that bubbles up on Sundays when thinking about Monday and the week ahead, with practical methods on banishing those Sunday scaries for good!
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I highly recommend to for anyone looking for inner clarity

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