Mad Isn't Bad: A Child's Book About Anger (Elf-Help Books for Kids) Paperback – Import, 1 June 1999

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.

Well written and concise, this book is easy for kids to understand but the points are good for parents as well. Makes reader feel okay about feeling anger. Great message.

I've found all the books we've read from the Elf-Help series to be really good. They have a great approach to dealing with angry feelings in this book - and it's been useful to provide terminology that says being angry is fine as long as you don't take it out on yourself, others or things.There is a chapter that references God, which we skip as we're not religious, but that is the only thing that I don't like & that would be fine for most people. Even for us non-religious types the way the God references are written are not too overbearing or judgemental & are easy enough to explain away to small kids.I would highly recommend any books from this series, regardless of your belief system.

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 kids quite like this book 3, 6 and 8. I think it's good for them to know its ok to be mad it's how you express it and your not a bad person for being mad.