Bibliotherapy
I. Introduction and Summary of Books

Children are the heart of a parent. Two people get married and they have a baby. It easy to get into a relationship, however, it is hard to maintain the long term relationship. Two people stay together under one roof, problems such as characteristics of each person and others, stress or others, at the end, quarrelling happened and make decision to separate.
So here come the situation, how are we going to tell our children? Children are so naïve, they believe in what they saw and they don’t think much. Children recognize good or bad, they don’t want their parent to be the bad person. Children ask questions when they didn’t see something they expected.
Compared to my country to United States, divorce percentage are much lower. Especially in traditional Chinese family, parent will always want to have the best for the children, no matter what happen between them. Even though some of the parent already divorce, but they still stay together and act like nothing happened in front of the children.
The reason why I’m choosing this topic because I remembered I have a same aged cousin, which his parent divorced. As we played together, we hanged out together, we asked him, why he was staying with his grandpa and grandma every day without going back to his parent. He told me that he only see his dad and mum once a month because they are working outstation. However, what I heard from my parent is, their parent were not together any more. This was so upset that my cousin doesn’t know anything about their parent divorce.
b. List and summarize
It’s Not Your Fault, Koko Bear.
Summary: This is a book for parent to their children aged 3 or up. Koko Bear parent is divorcing and they are having difficulties to tell Koko Bear. They let Koko Bear to understand what divorce means and they are still loving Koko Bear as a family and it’s not his fault. The reason this book is included because it has bullet point under each page to give information and advice about what the kids are going through, and the best way to handle each issue as it arises. Through the illustrations, it brings out positive message about divorce between Koko’s parents.
At Daddy’s On Saturdays
Summary: The story start with Katie’s father moved away by telling her, they can’t live together anymore and Katie feel like “somebody was throwing somebody else away. The divorce of Katie’s parents cause her to fell anger ,concern and sadness, but Katie discovers that she can keep a loving relationship with his father even though he lives apart from her.
Fred Stays with Me!
Summary: The story is about a young girl has two homes (her mom and dad), two different beds, but wherever she go, her dog, Fred, stays with her. Fred makes different trouble at different home. At mom place, the neighbor’s poodle barks at Fred all the time. At dad place, Fred has eaten all his socks. Until one day, both of them said, “Fred can’t stay with me!” However, she tells them, “Fred stay with me!” So they come out solutions for Fred’s naughty behavior. The story unfold the voice of the girl: “ Sometimes I live with my mom. Sometimes I live with my dad. But Fred stays with me.” This lead the children know the positive way after the life of parent divorce.
Missing Rabbit
Summary: This book is about the effect of divorce on a child. “When Kara goes to Papa’s house, she and Papa eat noodles. Oodles of noodles!-Kara always bring Rabbit.” When it’s time for Rabbit and Kara to go back to Mama’s house, Kara feels happy but Rabbit not sure, he ask, “ Where do I live?” Kara doesn’t know how to answer. She leaves rabbit at Papa house and go to Mama’s house. She started misses Rabbit. “Mama phones Papa. Papa brings Rabbit.” This show to children, even though their parent is divorce, but they are still contacting each other no matter what. This sentence show “ But wherever you are, you are always in our hearts.” This give the children assurance that they won’t be forget by their parent even though after divorce.
Dinosaurs Divorce
Summary: This story book use evocative cartoon dinosaur to convey their message. It shows the children why parents’ divorce, how about them, after the divorce, and other situations to illustrate that everything will be alright. For example, Telling one parent you have permission from the other to do something-when you don’t-isn’t fair to anyone. It will only get you into trouble. The pictures illustrated dinosaur’s father and mum contacted each other, and dinosaurs seems worried because he lied. This book illustrated more realistic situation, it is more suitable for grade 1 to 3.