Using Books to Help Build
a Child’s Coping Skills
Bobby’s Books is a program that uses books to help children and adults deal with difficult issues. Using children's literature as a springboard for conversations will give kids the chance to express their feelings and tell their own stories.
Featured Books
I Wish I Could Hold Your Hand...A Child's Guide to Grief and Loss
Dr. Pat Palmer
A best friend has moved away, Dad no longer lives with the family, or a favorite pet has died. This warm, comforting book gently helps grieving children identify their feelings and learn to accept and deal with them.
This books discusses the reality you feel when you lose someone. It helps to reinforce that you are not alone. It can often validate for a child a sense of understanding when they feel that no one knows what they are going through. It helps them to identify their feelings in an effort to express them.
Making Headlines
Why do good things happen to bad people?
An article from Psychology Today
Is His Dad Going to Die?
An article from News & Observer
Hospice of Northwest Ohio Receives $25,000 Grant
Sponsors
The tough travels of children-journeys through death, abandonment, imprisonment, cancer and other life altering events-cry for voices of compassion and visions of hopeful intervention. Bibliotherapy for children provides opportunity for safety amid the chaos of daily living.
Ben Keckler, Author
The Express Yourself Series
Eagle Creek Publications, LLC
