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Dinosaurs' Divorce: A Guide For Changing Families

Author: Brown, Laurene Krasny & Brown, Marc

Synopsis
The traumatic childhood experience--when a child's parents divorce--is depicted in the form of dinosaur characters. Chapters address the full range of feelings that a divorce produces. ". . . this will become a real 'security blanket' for young readers in need."--School Library Journal, starred review. New York Times Best Children's Book. Full color.

Synopsis
Simple, direct text and lively, often funny pictures encourage young readers to acknowledge and express their own fears and reactions and suggest positive ways of handling the many new situations and difficulties divorce brings. Full-color illustrations. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

Card catalog description
Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent.

Synopsis
In this book dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent. Glossary. "Kindergarten to grade four." (Bull Cent Child Books)

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Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent.

Description from The Reader's Catalog
Dinosaurs act out the roles played by parents and young children in real-life separations

From The Publisher
Dinosaurs Divorce will help you understand:

Divorce Words and What They Mean
Why Parents Divorce
What About Divorce?
After the Divorce
Living with One Parent
Visiting Your Parent
Having Two Homes
Celebrating Holidays and Special Occasions
Telling Your Friends
Meeting Parents' New Friends
Living with Stepparents
Having Stepsisters and Stepbrothers
Reviews
From School Library Journal
Gr 1-3 Children familiar with the Browns' Dinosaurs Beware (Atlantic, 1983) and Marc Brown's ``Arthur'' books (Atlantic) will delight in this new foray into an area of deep concern for the youngest readers. Sympathetic to the full range of feelings that divorce produces, the authors use evocative cartoon dinosaur characters to convey their message. Chapters address such concerns as why parents divorce, what will happen to ``me,'' where will holidays be celebrated, living in two homes, etc. Expressively illustrated with accompanying succinct text, this upbeat, straightforward treatment of a potentially confusing, traumatic childhood experience is comprehensive. Prediction: this will become a real ``security blanket'' for those young readers in need. Mary Lou Budd, Milford S. Elementary School, Milford, Ohio.

From Susie Wilde - Children's Literature
Every family who has a child four or older and is facing divorce should have a copy of this book, which was recently released in paperback. The authors discuss every issue of divorce with depth and sensitivity. To lighten the tension, they put their words in the skillful claws of humorous dinosaur characters, providing extra comfort for children and adults. Despite the playful appearance, Dinosaur's Divorce clearly defines limits, guidelines, and expectations of all family members at a time when life feels anything but clear.

From Sharron McElmeel - Science Books & Films
The Browns use their lovable, personified dinosaurs skillfully to drive home their points. At the very beginning, a glossary defines common divorce terms. Eleven divorce topics are presented in comic-strip format with individual frames giving specific thoughts on situations created by divorce. The information is not original, but it is presented in understandable terms, emphasizing love and understanding. . . . The text suggests specific actions in varioussituations. This is an informative, charming, appealing presentation of a topic often dealt with only in clinical terms. . . . It is an excellent read-together book and a useful book for children who can read on their own.

From Erica Abeel - The New York Times Book Review
For the child buffeted by divorce, this book could serve as a portable psychotherapist equipped with a whimsical sense of humor. Through a gaggle of side-splitting dinosaurs, it offers children . . . a working definition of divorce. And it charts the rocky passage they must negotiate after daddy (or, in these times, mommy) has moved out. By skillfully leavening the child's viewpoint with professional wisdom, this . . . {book} will instruct beleaguered grown-ups too. . . . Using these creatures is the Browns' most inspired stratagem. Snaggle-toothed and khaki-skinned, they are human and recognizable. . . . Above all, the dinosaurs are therapeutic. . . . Their goofy aspect coupled with anachronisms such as 'B.C. bubble bath,' take the curse off cruel situations, especially the wrenching physical displacements. . . . These monsters help children defang the monster of divorce.

From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly
A little bit like a comic book, sort of a reference bookit's hard to classify this latest work from the Browns, but that's all right. Both children and parents will use this as they wish, for it faces head-on the emotional (sadness, anger) and physical (separation from loved ones, what to call your new father's ex-wife's children) problems of divorce. It's comprehensive, reminding kids to take care of themselves and to think of how others are feeling. If children spend time in two households, this book shows them the way to get along with the people and the rules in both. Dinosaur characters distance the readers if a situation in the book too closely mirrors their own. The pictures lighten up serious text, which in turn keeps the picturesand a child's worryfrom seeming silly and insignificant. Divided into sections like ``Why Parents Divorce,'' ``Living with Stepparents'' and ``Celebrating Holidays,'' parents can use this book to help their children understand sudden or impending changes. Divorce, for the picture-book age group or any child, is a difficult subject. Here readers will be reassured that just as the little dinosaurs survive divorce, so will they. (4-8)

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