Sohal has a serious anxiety problem. Everything seems to scare him, and he finds it very hard to make friends. His loving parents try hard to help him, but he sleeps very little and even dreams of his worries. Sometimes he is rude to people in school because he panics and is tired. One day, when his teacher asks the class to draw pictures of something they worry about, Sohal draws pictures of all the worries that 'chase him around in his dreams'. Somehow, this seems to help a little, and he sleeps better that night, but when he wakes, he discovers all of his dreamed-about monsters are at the foot of his bed! There is BABS, an octopus who is in charge of all the worries, HURT, who worries about getting hurt, a small monster known as ANGER, BIG, who would like to go back to being a baby that has no responsibility, FAIL, who fears getting things wrong (and even cheats), and ALONE, who is shy and doesn't like being by himself nor in a crowd - six big worries that Sohal shares. Then the fun begins. The Worries keep turning up - at breakfast, at school, and during PE when Sohal has to cope with the school bully. All this is very funny and chaotic, and Sohal finds himself having to cope both with the Worries and Chip Monk, the bully. In the process, he begins to make a friend in Jazman, who is new to the class, and together they discover that they both have worry monsters who chase them around and create chaos. Furthermore, so does Chip Monk! It takes awhile for the Worries to disappear, but when they do, we know that all will be much better for Sohal. The author/illustrator of this very funny book has covered its 140 pages with drawings, speech bubbles, small pictures with tiny explanations, some pages in green, lots of individual words in big black letters, and some jivey language: Dude, Gotcha, Doh, Weird, Cool, etc. Kids will really enjoy it, and it's very readable to newly confident readers. Great fun! Could appeal to reluctant readers too.