Baltimore Duo Tackles Childhood Anxiety In New Children’s Book

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BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — Anxiety and nerves are things we’ve apt each felt astatine 1 constituent oregon another. Now a Baltimore-based writer and illustrator duo is tackling these feelings successful a caller children’s book.

In their recently published book, entitled “The Magic of Making Friends,” writer Sarah Petrosky and illustrator Christie Roads code what it’s similar to acquisition those feelings done the lens of a young witch.

While trying to marque caller friends astatine school, the protagonist Hazel astatine archetypal tries to impressment her classmates done the usage of her spells and magic.

“Of course, she realizes she doesn’t request magic to marque friends,” Petrosky told WJZ. “She’s making friends each time agelong conscionable by being herself.”

If that communicative sounds familiar, it’s apt due to the fact that being the caller kid is thing galore of america person gone done astatine immoderate constituent successful our lives.

The brace met respective years agone portion moving astatine the Baltimore Sun, Petrosky arsenic a copywriter and Rhoads arsenic a graphic designer.

They decided to agreed their talents down a meaningful message, 1 inspired successful portion by their ain experiences increasing up.

“I retrieve walking into situations wherever each the different kids seemed to acceptable in, seemed to cognize what they were doing, and that I was honestly the lone 1 that felt retired of place,” Rhoads said.

Their anticipation is that the book’s young readers recognize that everyone experiences moments of anxiousness and adjacent self-doubt.

But, arsenic Petrosky and Rhoads found, self-confidence develops implicit clip — often with assistance from loving friends and classmates.

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“Doing this publication unneurotic was benignant of our mode of letting kids cognize that is good to consciousness tense and to enactment your mode through, that you person the quality to summation spot from radical astir you,” Rhoads said.