Brock takes his time, confides in a new friend, feels empathy and when he is ready, finds his own way to be brave, even if he isn't completely over his unease.Īs a school librarian, I am excited to build this collection not just for my students and to recommend to parents, but to utilize with my building's counselors and behavior specialists. What I like best about this book (and what I suspect with be the theme of future books in the series) is empowering children to feel, acknowledge and process their emotions with a variety of strategies. I love the dual meaning Our emotions can get 'way past' our control, but by book's end we find our 'way past' those uncomfortable emotions to feeling better. These books are not only visually stunning but the concept for this series is so strong. I have been looking forward to this book since I found out that Adelman's Way Past Mad would not be a stand-alone but a series. Way Past Worried is the second book in the Way Past book series by Hallee Adelman. It was also important that he met a young girl that was feeling the same way because I think this shows children that they are not alone in feeling worried. I think it is very important to show this to young children-how he was nervous, but he was trying to be brave and do something that made him a little uncomfortable. What I really liked about this book is that Brock was trying very hard to remain calm-taking three big breaths as his father had taught them. They then decide that they will be brave friends together and join the others at the party. He retreats to the seclusion of a tree and there he meets a young girl who is also worried about being at the party. When he gets to the party, he misinterprets the children laughing at a puppet show as laughing at him. The worry starts to grow so much that Brock feels his heart thumping and his mind racing.

He is very nervous about going to the party and is afraid of so many things-people will not like his costume, kids will laugh at him, and no one will want to talk with him or play with him. Unfortunately, Brock does not feel like a superhero. It is a superhero party and Brock is all set to go in his superhero costume. In this story we meet a little boy named Brock who is getting ready to go to his friend’s birthday party.

Way Past Worried by Hallee Adelman