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Separation and Loss
Books about separation, loss, and heartbreak, provide a way to help kids face significant loss. Those books teach the kids how to say goodbye and relieve overwhelming grief. The reactions to sorrow are normal and common, and crying is a part of healing. The important thing is to accept sadness and move on.
“The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.”
—Jewish proverb
PK-3
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
Daniel Beaty
Relationship between a boy and father, one day the father is gone and doesn't return. As the boy grows he recieves letters about the father's hopes for his life.
#Father and son relationship #Family separation #Persistence #Black
Pre-1
Love
Corrinne Averiss
Tess sees love as strings between her and her family. When she goes to school, she worries the string of love from her parents would not reach far. But with mom's explanation, she finds love strings for everyone at school.
#Love #Family #Empathy #Relationship #Schooling #Insecurity #Separation #Anxiety #Death
1-2
The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story
Thao Lam
A girl and her family flee to America from the war happening in their home country, Vietnam.
#Family #Refugee #War #Love #Flee #Vietnamese #Frighten #Separation #Courage #Wordless
Pre-3
The Star Festival
Moni Ritchie Hadley
A girl celebrates the star festival with her family and gets lost in the crowd.
#Culture #Festival #Folktale #Asian #Japan #StarFestival #Separation #Reunite
PK-3
Memory String
Bunting, Eve
After her mother passes away, a girl keeps a memory string filled with buttons from her mother but when it breaks her step mom helps her search for the missing buttons and teach her the value of memories both old and new.
#Family #Loss #StepMother #Coping #Memories #Emotions
N/A
Game, Set, Sisters!: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Jay Leslie
A biography of female tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams and the hardship they endured to because professional athletes.
#Tennis #Biography #Sisters #Perserverence #Hardship #Family #Loss #Racism #FemaleAthlete #ProfessionalAthlete
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