Book Descriptions
for Divorce by Fred Rogers and Jim Judkis
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Preschoolers whose parents are divorcing will find reassurance in this photoessay that they will still have a family to help them feel safe, give them food, take care of them and love them. Rogers's low-key statements articulate children's typical concerns with characteristic insight and suggest healthy ways to express the feelings most children experience. Color photographs show three families of differing racial heritages. (Ages 2-5)
CCBC Choices 1996. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1996. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Upsetting changes can happen in a family when there's a divorce. Thefeelings of the children may be confusing and complex. They may feel that the divorce istheir fault or that they can somehow make their parents get back together. In his gentle, reassuring tone, Fred Rogers explains that the most important thing isfor children to know that all of their feelings are real and acceptable, whatever they mightbe. Talking about them and recognizing them can help children feel more stable during atime filled with change. No book can, or should, take away the pain of divorce, but Fred Rogers encouragesus to remind children that although some things will change with the divorce, some thingswill stay the same. Children still have a family that loves them...a family that needs theirlove. And knowing that can give them a very good feeling.
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