Do Not Open

 By Brinton Turkle

This book was so fantastic.  And we utterly destroyed it with a cup of tea.  Tragedy.

It's about a woman who lives alone by the beach with a cat and collects odds and ends

 The pictures are fantastic.  I yearn for a house decorated like hers.  Half of the book is just describing their lazy lifestyle, retired in a one bedroom cabin by the ocean listening to storms together.

The last few pages has them discovering a bottle with a monster inside.  The woman is not in the least bit afraid and defeats it easily.  She's granted a wish as a reward.

The pictures here are a little over the top and probably not appropriate for an anxious younger child, but the whole book is about conquering your fears, so it's a good book for anxious kids, too.

My severely anxious child loved this book.  But she's starting to develop an interest in scary things.