Monday, April 6, 2009
This is a very powerful children's book about child abuse written by Doris Sanford. It is a book about how a young child gets abused at the daycare they attend. It talks about the symptoms that the child goes through, from change of behavior to not eating. You also see the anguish the parents are put through wondering if it was them that made their child so unhappy. In the book we find out exactly what happens to the child and it make you angry but also scared for when you have your own children. The most helpful part of the book is in the back it has ten suggestions on how to help your child through this situation if you ever are unlucky enough to have to go through it. I felt like this might be a hard book for kids to understand right away because it seems to skip over a lot of obvious information and leads you to make a lot of assumptions. I don't know how I would feel about reading this book to kids but I feel like it is also important to let kids know they too have rights that should not be violated. I loved the illustrations in this book and thought the soft touch of each picture really added to the mood and feeling of the story. this is one of the most powerful children's books I have read. Check it out.
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