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Children's books reviewed and recommended by our staff: Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way To Explain Death To Children Do You Have a Secret? How to Get Help for Scary Secrets
Other books reviewed by our staff
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 of Children's Books
Reviewed by Suzanne C. Doherty
Dinosaurs Divorce by Laurene Krasney Brown and Marc Brown, Little, Brown, and Co., 1986 This classic guide for changing families explains the nuts and bolts of the divorce process- offers a child the opportunity to explore feelings and reactions during a difficult life experience; encourages development of strategies through the adjustment to new life circumstances. The colorful illustrations of a dinosaur family in the process of divorce introduce a touch of humor and whimsy to this difficult topic.
Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way To Explain Death To Children by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen Bantam Books, 1983 A gorgeously illustrated books, Lifetimes tells about beginnings and endings and the living in between. This book offers a sensitive conceptualization of death as part of the life cycle of plants, animals, and people. When a child experiences, or is about to experience, the death of a relative or friend or beloved pet, Lifetimes is one of the resources available to help understand the ending part of life.
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 In 1973, Dr. Seuss has a vision of a books pairing moods and colors. He wrote the text hoping that a "great color artist not dominated by me" could be found to illustrate the manuscript. The result is this book with a range of vibrant colors and a menagerie of animals that brilliantly illustrates the familiar Seussian rhymes. This visual expression of emotional experience is a delightful way to help a child recognize and identify the range of human feelings.
Do You Have a Secret? by Pamela Russell and Beth Stone CompCare Publishers, 1986 Illustrated with soft pencil drawings, this book helps a child distinguish between happy secrets "that put a smile on your face" and sad or scary secrets that "make you want to hide and cry." Although specifically intended to help a child struggling with the secret of sexual abuse, this book discusses the effects of holding any kind of unhappy secret and offers concrete suggestions for who and how to tell about experiences that are troubling.
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