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Picture Books Library < Issues
Picture books about Issues from the Little Parachutes reviews library

Picture books that help young children cope with big issues and situations such as bullying, divorce, adoption and serious illness.

Adoption & Fostering

Adoption & Fostering

Books that explain adoption and fostering to young children, and support, inform and reassure adopted children who are struggling with transition, new concepts and feelings.

Bullying, Violence & Abuse

Bullying, Violence & Abuse

Picture books for children who have been affected by bullying or other violent/abusive behaviour.

Caring for the Environment

Caring for the Environment

Books that cover environmental issues and explains them in a simple way that children can understand.

Death & Bereavement

Death & Bereavement

Books which tackle the difficult subjects of bereavement and loss. Grieving children may find comfort or answers to challenging questions in the pages of these books.

Depression in Family

Depression in Family

Books which inform and comfort children who have parents (or other family members/loved ones) suffering from depression.

Divorce / Separation

Divorce / Separation

Picture books that gently explain the issues surrounding divorce and separation to young children, to help them get a sense of what’s happening.

Facts of Life

Facts of Life

Age-appropiate picture books aimed at young children who are curious about where babies come from.

Non-traditional Families

Non-traditional Families

Many children’s picture books still feature the traditional ‘nuclear family’. Our book library contains non-traditional family stories, including blended, single-sex and single-parent families.

Parent In Prison

Parent In Prison

Books for children who have a parent or other loved one in prison; which explain prison life and help children deal with the absence of a parent.

Safety and Protection

Safety and Protection

Books that inform children about the importance of personal safety and protection. Subjects include road and home safety and ‘stranger danger’.

Serious Illness

Serious Illness

Books which inform or comfort children who are seriously ill, or have family members or other loved ones suffering from a serious physical or mental illness.

 

Our Baby Inside

Our Baby InsideA positive yet realistic view of what it's like to have a baby - explaining to children where they come from.

Categories: Facts of Life, New Baby
Tags: brother, sister

Recycling!

Recycling!This book might encourage children to recycle, reduce waste and be responsible for looking after the environment.

Categories: Caring for the Environment
Tags: co-operation, recycling

Be Careful (Talking It Through)

Be Careful (Talking It Through)

Categories: Safety and Protection

My Grampy Can’t Walk

My Grampy Can't WalkA positive book which sends out the message that a person's disabilities need not define them. It would be a good choice for a child who has a family member in a wheelchair.

Categories: Disabilities, Resilience / adaptability, Serious Illness
Tags: grandparent, wheelchair

Manners at the Park

Manners at the Park

Categories: Caring for the Environment, Friendship & Getting Along, Manners & Politeness, Safety and Protection
Tags: behaviour, co-operation, dog, road safety, sharing

Let My Colors Out

Let My Colors OutThis book is published by the American Cancer Society to help young children of cancer patients

Categories: Anxiety, Sadness, Serious Illness
Tags: anxiety, cancer, emotions

Lamb-A-Roo

Lamb-A-RooA comforting look at adoption and accepting that you don't have to look alike and be the same to be loved.

Categories: Adoption & Fostering, Being Different & Being Yourself

Lively Elizabeth

Lively ElizabethThis book shows how our actions effect others.

Categories: Aggression & Tantrums, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Manners & Politeness
Tags: behaviour, co-operation, hitting, rudeness, violence

For Everyone To Share

For Everyone To ShareUseful for very young children to celebrate and experience the world around them

Categories: Caring for the Environment
Tags: independence

Ready, Steady, Grow!

ReadyDescribing to the very young positive things they can do to help their bodies grow strong and healthy. May also reassure a child eager to 'be grown up' that each day, little by little, they are moving towards this. Personal safety issues, healthy eating and good hygiene are also touched upon.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Getting Dressed, Healthy Eating & Exercise, Safety and Protection, Wanting to be Grown Up, Washing & Good Hygiene
Tags: diet, diversity, eating, exercise, growing up, hygiene, wheelchair

The Shopping Basket

The Shopping BasketA positive account of how a child uses his brain to outsmart bullies. May encourage children to react to teasing and bullying in ways other than physical retaliation.

Categories: Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Courage, Resilience / adaptability

Grow Organic Eat Organic

Grow Organic Eat OrganicThis factual picture book provides children with lots of information on growing and eating organic produce.

Categories: Caring for the Environment, Healthy Eating & Exercise
Tags: eating

Mommy Stayed in Bed This Morning

Mommy Stayed in Bed This Morning: Helping Children Understand Depression

Categories: Depression in Family, Serious Illness
Tags: depression, mental health

How Should I Behave?

How Should I Behave?A good way to start a discussion with young children on what constitutes acceptable behaviour. Promotes good manners, co-operation, helping and politeness.

Categories: Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Friendship & Getting Along, Listening & Co-operating, Manners & Politeness, Safety and Protection, Tidiness & Helping Out
Tags: behaviour, co-operation, rudeness, swearing, table manners

Finding A Family For Tommy

Finding A Family For TommyTo use with very young children on the topic of adoption and fostering.

Categories: Adoption & Fostering

Living with Mum and Living with Dad: My Two Homes

Living with Mum and Living with Dad: My Two HomesA simple and comforting book about separation for very young children

Categories: Divorce / Separation, Non-traditional Families
Tags: absence, divorce, father, mother, single parent

My Daddy’s Going Away

My Daddy's Going AwayA comforting and reassuring little book for children with temporarily absent fathers.

Categories: Non-traditional Families, Resilience / adaptability
Tags: absence, father, separation anxiety, single parent

Hugo and the Bully Frogs

Hugo and the Bully FrogsBullying

Categories: Bullying, Violence & Abuse

Rude Rabbit

Rude RabbitHighlights the negative impact that bad manners and rudeness can have. Promotes the idea that if someone is polite then they will be happier and have more friends.

Categories: Aggression & Tantrums, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Friendship & Getting Along, Manners & Politeness
Tags: anger, behaviour, emotions, swearing, violence

A First Look at Adoption: My Parents Picked Me

A First Look at Adoption: My Parents Picked MeProvides an easy to understand introduction to the subject of adoption for young children.

Categories: Adoption & Fostering
Tags: foster

Spark Learns To Fly

Spark Learns To FlyIssues of foster caring and domestic violence

Categories: Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Safety and Protection
Tags: abuse, anxiety, foster, violence

Playing in the Park (Why Manners Matter)

Playing in the Park (Why Manners Matter)This book covers the important aspects of playing with others in the park. It provides good examples of the little things that can make life much more agreeable for everyone and that make no-one feel excluded. It is written in language that children can easily understand.

Categories: Acceptance & Inclusion, Friendship & Getting Along, Manners & Politeness, Safety and Protection
Tags: behaviour, co-operation, friends, sharing

Let’s Talk: Have you got a Secret?

Let's Talk: Have you got a Secret?The situations explained in this book help children to distinguish between good and bad secrets and encourage communication between the child reader and an adult.

Categories: Anxiety, Bullying, Violence & Abuse, Sadness, Safety and Protection
Tags: anxiety, emotions, fears, violence

Dennis Duckling

Dennis DucklingFostering/Adoption

Categories: Adoption & Fostering, Anxiety, Sadness
Tags: anxiety, fears, foster, friends, separation anxiety

My Henry

My HenryThis book may provide comfort to children who have lost a loved one.

Categories: Death & Bereavement
Tags: grandparent, loss

How Did I Begin?

How Did I Begin?Provides an introduction to the facts of life for young children.

Categories: Facts of Life
Tags: facts of life

Where is Poppy’s Panda?

Where is Poppy's Panda?To help children with loss/transition/change and continuity

Categories: Adoption & Fostering, Comfort Objects
Tags: anxiety, loss

The Grandad Tree

The Grandad TreeAbout the cycle of life and the endurance of love

Categories: Death & Bereavement
Tags: emotions, grandparent, loss

I Can Be Safe: A First Look at Safety

I Can Be Safe: A First Look at SafetyEveryone needs to know how to look after themselves in dangerous situations, and this book helps to guide a child through potential hazards.

Categories: Safety and Protection
Tags: road safety

One World

One WorldConcern about the environment and demonstrates how we can all care, fight pollution and make a difference.

Categories: Caring for the Environment

A Mummy for Owen

A Mummy for OwenChildren who have lost a parent or experienced a change in circumstances, such as fostering or adoption, will relate to orphaned Owen and find comfort in his loving relationship with his adoptive mother, Mzee, a 130-year-old male tortoise.

Categories: Adoption & Fostering, Being Different & Being Yourself, Death & Bereavement
Tags: emotions, foster, mother

I Wished for You: An Adoption Story

I Wished for You: An Adoption StoryReflects the unconditional love felt between a parent and their adopted child. Explains common aspects of the adoption process. Reinforces the view that physical differences within a family are not important.

Categories: Adoption & Fostering
Tags: foster

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