The Worry Stone

by Marianna Dengler

Folks say if you're troubled or worried, and if you rub the stone gently, like this, the worry goes away. Every day the woman walks to the park, the bright red feather bobbing on her floppy old hat.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873586425
• ISBN13: 9780873586429
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cooper Square Pub
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written, exquisitely illustrated

As a school librarian, I chose to read this book aloud as a source of comfort for our students after the attacks of Sept. 11 and then gave each student a "worry stone" (a polished river rock) to keep. The kids were spellbound by the story and seemed to treasure the memento.The three stories in one gives the book a timeless quality that spans generations. An added bonus was the curriculum tie-in for us in California through the Chumash legend. I give this book my highest recommendation.

For adults and children

This is a wonderful book. It shows the power of positive thinking. It is three stories in one, and looks at the value of older people in our lives. It also gives advice -- without being preachy --about keeping our worries under control.I recommend it for everyone.

One of our family's top five books

This story is a beautiful interweaving of three stories, a Native American woman who loses her husband in war, a girl's relationship with her grandfather, and an old woman who discovers how to reach a lonely child that she has seen in the park. It is a gentle and lovely way to introduce to children the concept of death and a chance to discuss the value of the people we love in our lives and to understand the feelings of others. The story is wonderful in itself, but the illustrations make it even more so. They seem to glow with an inner light.

A beautiful, touching story

This book has become one my family's favorites - hard to read without a catch in your voice. A story about the circle of life and the importance of grandfather/grandmother figures in a child's life. I cannot recommend this book highly enough! Beautiful illustrations!

Just think of something happy when you are sad or down.

This book was very neat. My teacher read it to me. In the book this lady Amanda meets a little boy who no one will play with. She gives him a stone and tells him a story about it that her grandfather had told her.