Key Selling Points

• Through entertaining storytelling, The Journal of Anxious Izzy Parker offers strategies that kids can use to help them overcome their anxieties, like journaling, breathing techniques, animal companionship, and more.
• Inspired by Alma Fullerton's childhood experiences with anxiety and her struggle with reading and writing due to her dyslexia.
• Touches on common issues that kids deal with when they start a new school, like shyness, anxiety about making new friends, and loneliness.
• Set in Bedeque, PEI, young readers will appreciate the vivid descriptions of the Maritimes.
• Alma Fullerton is the previous author of five novels for young readers and six picture books, which have been nominated or won the Governor General Award, the TD Canadian Literature Award, the Red Maple Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award, and more.

Eight-year-old Izzy Parker’s biggest problem is feeling anxious and afraid. Her mom’s decision to move them across the country to Prince Edward Island didn’t help. Izzy worries she will say the wrong thing or laugh at the wrong time, and none of the kids will want to be her friend. Sometimes, it’s so hard to be Izzy that she can’t breathe.

In her honest, awkward, and anxious journal, Izzy writes down the story of her life and how she is trying to be a little less afraid. The good news: things might not be as bad as they seem. Even better? They will soon have a small, furry new family member—an emotional support dog named Gandalf!

Eight-year-old Izzy Parker’s biggest problem is feeling anxious and afraid. Her mom’s decision to move them across the country to Prince Edward Island didn’t help.

In her honest, awkward, and anxious journal, Izzy writes down the story of her life and how she is trying to be a little less afraid.