Bea's Butterflies

Kim Metzger’s book Bea’s Butterflies, Confronting Anxiety is an engaging children’s book that informs children and parents about the challenges of anxiety and coping strategies to cope with this angst. The growing concerns regarding mental health issues like depression and anxiety need to be addressed, now more than ever. Throughout this story, readers learn how the young and fragile Beatrix learns to cope with her problems through art, gardening, and other coping strategies. Beatrix blossoms into a secure middle school student who has the compassion to help her fellow students as she shares her new knowledge in an after school club. Kim hope you can learn with and from Beatrix.