Train Your Angry Dragon: A Cute Children Story To Teach Kids About Emotions and Anger Management. (My Dragon Books Book 2) Kindle Edition

I bought this book for my five year old grandson’s birthday. He loves it. Since his birthday party was centered around a dragon theme, this book was perfect.. I made him a reading pillow and embroidered a dragon on it. I put the book in the pillow pocket. He was thrilled with both the reading pillow and Train Your Dragon! The rhyming words, the cheerful illustrations, the kid centered events, and even the Dragon’s name, Diggory Doo, make this a perfect choice for young children. However, on one page ( The pages are not numbered.) there is a glaring grammatical mistake. “Diggory loves it when he PLAY with other girls and boys.” The editors obviously missed this mistake, I used a Sharpie to add the “s” to “play”, but am disappointed that this mistake was missed. Granted, I am a retired elementary teacher and principal and tend to notice such things; but I believe any parent reading this book aloud would be surprised to see this mistake. Even more concerning is that children who are able to read the text independently may not notice the mistake. Young readers internalize “book language” and this error is a critical one. I hope this will be corrected.

Bought this for my tantrum throwing almost 3 year old. He LOVES this book & wants to read it multiple times. The situations are relatable: Having to remain calm and patient while waiting your turn, being told no, Not being able to go somewhere you want (outside), meeting a bully, or having to share. While reading the story I enjoyed asking my son if he's ever had to do these things and if he reacted the same way as Diggory the dragon (or had someone act like Diggory towards him). I often repeat "you can't hurt things just because you're angry" and Diggory burning & my toddler hitting definitely relate. The other characters have great emotions on their faces in reaction to the dragons behavior too. My toddler might not be able to calm himself by thinking happy thoughts or counting to 10 but when he was upset about leaving the store and I mentioned controlling his anger his response was "Like the dragon?". This has happened in numerous situations. So thank you.Edit to add that the typo posted by another reviewer was corrected in the hardback version of mine.

We didn’t like this book. It rambles on too much about instances where the dragon is simply behaving badly, and the only tip provided is to count to 10. That’s it. I was looking for something that would help a child recognize when they are feeling angry, and teach several ways to process that anger in healthy ways.

We are working on angry behaviors with our son, but don't need new ideas for him to follow. This one describes a dragon burning things down - appropriate for a dragon I suppose, but not a new idea we want to plant in his head.

There is no way to give you an understanding of how high needs our youngest is. Trust me, you probably have never encountered so much mental illness and behavioral challenges in one human being. His rage has become triggered so easily and gets so destructive. He loves this book. It gives us a way to talk about anger and coping without him feeling threatened or worthless. Playing with a stuffed dragon like Diggery Doo, has made a wonderful way to role-play the coping skills in the story. We both are anxiously awaiting the money to get more of this series.

Wow , Steve Herman you nailed it........Your book flows so well , rhymes and paces just right. The illustrations are top notch too. My wife is a Montessori teacher for ages 3,4, & 5 year olds and she was so thrilled with your story, Train Your Angry Dragon. More like this please Steve. Parents this is a book any child will like.

My 4 and 2 year olds LOVE this book and we put on our "mad" faces with poor Diggory Doo. My 4 yo struggles with BIG emotions and a speech delay that adds to his frustration when trying to express himself. This book helps channel those feelings so that he feels understood, which in turn helps him release some of those big feelings he can't always adequately express verbally. Great reference point as he is learning and growing in his communication and emotional management/understanding...love this story and it's positive impact on my fam!

I'm so glad I stumbled across this book while searching for children's books about anger geared at young kids. This book was exactly what I was looking for. I have a 5-year-old son who often has trouble controlling his anger ("I just can't help it"), so the concept of treating your anger like a dragon that needs some training and helpful tips is very helpful. The drawings were wonderful, and the simple rhyming story was great.

It has only a few pages with drawings in and little to no content.I bought this TO HELP children that were angry or frustrated - to understand and deal with it or express it differently - let me summarise this book in a few words:1. walk away2. count to tenTHATS IT.seriously. no joke. that was the only advice in a few pages - you are paying ten pounds TEN POUNDS for that rubbishI could not believe it when I saw it.please put your money elsewhere as this is just a book with rubbish pictures in.sorry to be blunt - but parent experiencing stress and looking for ways to help should be rewarded and encouraged with good material - no screwed for money andl et down.

This was not good quality in terms of illustrations and text, my kids age 4 and 7 did not find it engaging. There are plenty of ways to teach them how to control their temper but this unfortunately is not one of them. Advertised on Amazon as a real book suggestion when in fact it has quite a home made feel to it, print wise, illustration wise, and written text seems like a first book by an amateur not by an experienced children’s book author. Not clever, quite dumbing down, not interesting to my kids. Sad as it is a good idea and we need good books on this subject to help kids. Perhaps could suit a 2 or 3 year old but then it should recommend this in the product description. Some children's books are a pleasure to read and clever even though they’re for tiny ones, however this is not one of those.

Great rhyming story that kept my daughters attention.Most books designed to help children loose the story element. This book is so good a good story whist teaching values and I will be buying more from the series- keep writing more please Steve!

This book is amazing. Expertly written and very easy for my 6 year old child to follow, understand and enjoy. It has helped to reduce her angry outbursts and has taught her to count to ten to help her calm down. Furthermore, I really enjoy reading it to her as it is a great story that flows well. I would highly recommend this book.

Bought this for my grandson who has Autism and has anger issues.but he got bored of it after a few pages.Now that’s just my grandson your child maybe totally different but . This is a book I honestly thought he would relate too and he didn’t.We will try any books to help with his autism and we have and yes we have had great responses from many, but this I can honestly say he just didn’t want to listen. And before anyone says it’s cos he doesn’t understand trust me he his a very clever little boy but this just didn’t grab is imagination ...Boredom kicked in after page three ...