Mad Isn't Bad: A Child's Book about Anger (Elf-help Books for Kids) Kindle Edition

Ordered this book to read with my 6 year old who is struggling with expressing his anger in a healthy way. Since he is getting in trouble for hitting a lot lately, he is now saying that he's "the worst kid ever". I thought this book would help explain how being mad does not mean you are a bad person, everyone gets mad, and maybe a few tips on healthy ways to express angry in a story format. I'm glad I read the book first without him... there is a page in the middle about being angry with god and some religious points. I don't think it was necessary to be in the book, especially since it was not marked as a religious book. Another reason I did not like the book is that I thought it would be in story format. It is not in story format, it is categorized and then gives tips for each category (that seemed to be too mature for kids to understand). There is no story line at all. I don't know how a kid would stay engaged. Very disappointed and will be donating the book. On the plus side, the art work was cute and the book seemed sturdy.

Terrible book. Got very religious and not helpful at all even without the religious aspect.

This book has a good message for children regarding expressing anger appropriately; however, it is a little long and detailed for younger children. I would say it's better suited for ages 7+. The illustrations were good and the writing was well done.

Such a great book to read to children that may be having a hard time. This book bring it down to the children's levels and explains what they are experience on their levels and terms. Will highly recommend this book to any parent or teacher that needs just a little extra help

I liked to read this book to my nephews.It explains anger in simple words giving a couple of suggestions on how to handle anger

I read this to my 6 year old to help reinforce his own personal awareness with topics that he struggles with due to his ADHD. Being aware of what we need to work on is the first step to correcting the problem behavior and hopefully preventing our children from future frustrations and disappointments within themselves. It is easier to mold them into respectful, responsible kids at a younger age. With that said this book is one of many that we read as our "self help" kinda books. This is a longer very informative book, it doesn't keep the attention of my 6 year old for more than a few pages. I pick and choose the pages I read depending on what I am trying to make him aware of and teach him coping skills in regards to things he struggled with that day or week.

My youngest cousin had quite the temper. This book along with some other behavior modifications helped a lot! He is so much happier! I think he didn't realize that other kids get angry like him, he goes to a tiny school with 48 kids and was always "the bad one." He thought everything was his fault. When I read this book to him he asked plenty of questions and it calmed him down that night. We did other things as well to help his anger but over time it became better and reading this book to him helped him understand his anger a bit better.

A good book for talking about emotions. A little long for my guy, who just turned 4, but we just skip the portions that don't apply right now.

We bought this book for our son who is diagnosed with ASD and PDA and gets angry quite easily. It is written really well and so that a child can understand without patronising them. I wish I'd found this book when he was a bit younger, he was 12 when we bought him this and he found it a bit babyish. Well thought out book though and would recommend.

As I bought it for professional purposes the religious context isn't ideal. However a great book otherwise and I'll use it though more selectively than originally intended.

Great for the children older child, not recommended for younger children as the use of language is far too hard for young children to understand and is a bit long winded in my opinion for kids.

This is a great book for children with anger issues. You can read it with them or it is easy enough for them to read alone. Very positive and helpful. Recommend.

Very American in the way it was written and I found that it was too long. I didn't used it at work like I purchased it for