It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear: A Read-Together Book for Parents and Young Children During Divorce Author: Visit Amazon's Vicki Lansky Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0916773469 | Format: PDF
It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear: A Read-Together Book for Parents and Young Children During Divorce Description
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How do you talk to your children about your divorce? How can you best handle their responses? Here's a children's book and parenting tool rolled into one.
It's Not Your Fault, Koko Bear is a picture book designed to be read by parents to their children. Koko Bear's parents are getting a divorce, and Koko, a preschool-aged unisex bear, isn't happy about it. "I don't like this divorce. I don't want two homes," Koko says. Koko Bear's story doesn't minimize kids' pain, but it doesn't wallow in it either. The message is positive: children are reassured that their feelings are natural, that their parents still love and will care for them, and that the divorce is not their fault. At the bottom of each page, there are bullet points for parents that give information and advice about what the kids are going through, and the best way to handle each issue as it arises.
(Ages 3 to 7 and parents) --This text refers to the
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2AKoKo Bear's parents are getting divorced, and the cub must go through many adjustments and deal with a wide range of emotions: anger, guilt, confusion, and sadness. At every step, MaMa and PaPa are helpful, understanding, and supportive. In fact, Lansky's introduction for parents notes that adults might think they "are unrealistically polite and even-tempered." However, this is a book with a purpose, and as such, plot and character take a backseat to message. Below each block of text are comments and suggestions for adults to deal with issues raised by that section of the story. The illustrations are similarly low-key and pleasant, adding to the overall sense of well being. As bibliotherapy, this book serves a purpose. It might be shelved with the author's Divorce Book for Parents (Book Peddlers, 1991) as well as in the juvenile section.AKathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Age Range: 3 - 7 years
- Series: Lansky, Vicki
- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Book Peddlers, The (December 17, 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0916773469
- ISBN-13: 978-0916773465
- Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
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