Chicken Little, Come Out! The Sky Is Not Falling!
Chicken Little’s Coping Skills for Kids (Ages 4-7)
This new take on the classic folktale is designed to help children identify and normalize their worries, fears, and anxieties. With the help of some farm animals for kids, Chicken Little, Come Out! The Sky Is Not Falling! fosters mental health awareness and provides strategies for improved coping.
Featuring a fun-filled barn, fluffy farm animals, and coping skills for kids. There’s a barn full of Chicken Little characters, but they don’t want to come out. It’s scary out there and they fear the sky is falling! But, with a lot of teamwork and a little help from Chicken Little, together they can calm their fears and phobias. All they need are the right behavioral stress reduction tools!
A colorful animal story about mental health for kids. Chicken Little is confronting common fears and helping children with anxiety in a charming and new way. Using beautifully illustrated, relatable farm animals from the Chicken Little story, Psychiatric Social Worker, Dr. Winchester-Vega offers ways to manage and normalize children's mental health and foster conversation and understanding.
Inside, find:
- Coping skills for kids
- Strategies for reducing anxiety in children
- Two bonus resources for parents, educators, and caregivers helping children with anxiety
If you enjoyed books like What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Wilma Jean the Worry Machine, or Wemberly Worried, then you and your child will love Chicken Little, Come Out! The Sky is Not Falling!
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Book details
- Author
- Michele Winchester-Vega, D.S.W., LCSW-R, Sharen Casazza, M.D., Katie Helpley, LMFT, RPT
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 64
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Ages
- 4-7
- Subjects
- Juvenile Fiction › Social Themes › Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Juvenile Fiction › Animals › Farm Animals
Juvenile Fiction › Social Themes › Emotions & Feelings
Juvenile Fiction › Social Themes › Depression & Mental Illness - Topics
- anxiety and fear · coping skills · farm animals · classic folktale retelling · mental health awareness · teamwork · emotions and feelings · picture book for young children
- ISBN-13
- 9781642503487
About the author
MICHELE WINCHESTER VEGA, D.S.W., LCSW-R, is a psychiatric social worker with over 35 years of clinical practice and the co-author of Are You My Sister?
Winchester Vega trained at Columbia University School of Social Work and Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work. She received the 2010 National Association of Social Workers' Hudson Valley Division Lifetime Achievement Award and is listed in the Cambridge Who’s Who Registry Among Executive and Professional Women and in Who’s Who of American Women.
When she’s not writing, Winchester Vega owns a private practice in New Windsor, New York, employing over 30 mental health professionals, and has taught psychology, sociology, and social work at Yeshiva University, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Orange County College, and Marist College.
Michele lives in New Windsor, New York.