FRASER + McGRATH PUBLISHING

I Worry a Little, I Worry a Lot is about understanding the feeling that a bad thing is going to happen when life's activities are out of your control and can send your heart racing, limbs shaking and belly aching. Mum leaving the house without you, the teacher calling your name when you really don't want to talk in class, sleeping in the darkness of night, leaving your safe place of home. Things which your friends laugh about, but leave you feeling alone and scared. You are not sure what these feelings are or why they are happening and you question whether you can survive.

As a working mother of two children, Jacqueline has significant experience working to support people with disabilities and health conditions. She has always valued providing support to others. Managing anxiety most of her own life, Jacqueline wanted to write a children’s book to support her own daughter and other children understand thy are not alone in their worries and to take life one day at a time.

It has been an absolute honour for Dean to work on such an important and personal book. With a background in animation and comics it has been a challenge trying to portray creeping anxiety in a visual way. He would like to thank his niece Lexy and nephew Casey for their great contributions to the book, you guys are the best.