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
Tear Soup
Pat Schweibert, Chuck DeKlyen
This book discusses the topics of grief, coping and healing and reinforces the fact that each of us grieves in our own way. It is a wonderful book to open up the lines of communication in a therapy or support group, with a family, or to simply help the individual understand there is no right or wrong way to grieve. By using the analogy of making soup, you are able to see how people grieve in different ways, at different times, for different reasons. There is no wrong way to grieve except to not grieve at all.
Making Headlines
Bobby's Books Listed in National Outreach Efforts to Support Military Families with Young Children
Parenting While Grieving
Parents who've lost loved ones say they need more resources for themselves and their children.
Siblings of Sick Needs Need Their Own TLC
Sponsors
Bobby's Books provides an opportunity for parents and professionals to discuss major issues in the lives of children using a Bibliotherapeutic approach. This project goes the additional step of providing curriculum for each book and training in the use of books. Providing a way for parent and child to be together and heal together is a positive approach to processing grief for the family.
Hilda Glazer, EdD
Playful Therapies Center
