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.