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The Worry Jar: A Story About Worries and Where to Put Them
Paperback
Bedtime & DreamsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781911837121
Publisher: Regulated Human Co
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some worries do not shout. They just stay - small, and strangely heavy.
Little Bean has a worry. It is not a big worry. But it is not a small one, either. It follows Little Bean to breakfast. It follows Little Bean out to play. It gets a little bigger by bedtime, the way worries do in the quiet. The Worry Jar is a gentle story for the child who cannot quite say what is wrong, only that something feels heavy - and for the grown-up who wants a way in.
Then Little Bean sees it: an old jar on the shelf. Empty. Waiting. To put a worry in a jar, first you have to look at it properly. So Little Bean looks. Names it, out loud, just once. And the worry - the same size it always was, but somehow easier to hold - goes in. Lid on.
Why parents and caregivers love The Worry Jar:
A tool a child can actually use. Look at the worry. Name it out loud. Put it somewhere safe. This is not abstract comfort - it is a concrete, repeatable ritual a child can return to on any worried night, with or without a real jar.
No false promises. The worry is still there in the morning. It is just smaller. This book never claims worries disappear, because they do not - it shows a child what to do with one instead.
Honest about the limits, too. Some worries fit in jars. Some are too big, and need a grown-up to hold them with you. The book is careful to point big worries toward sharing, not suppressing.
Made for the bedtime spiral. Blanket on, blanket off, this side, that side - any parent will recognise the exact moment this book is written for, and the exact moment it resolves.
Made for ages 4-7. Full colour, 24 pages, a Little Signals Story - the same gentle world as The Grey Day, The Storm Inside, and The Sleepy Stone, with more stories on the way.
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