This book is about....divorce. There are two children that have to put up with their parents fighting all the time and never agreeing on anything. They decide that it isn't their fault and decide that their parents should be un-married and live in separate houses. In the end the two children are happy and so are their parents.
This book puts a different spin on divorce. I think it would be helpful to read this book to children especially because divorce rates are so high these days. This book addresses the fact that it is not the children's fault that their parents do not get along. It gives the children perspective that their parents just maybe better off "un-married". There are so many children going through divorce and I think that this book could be helpful. Not every book should end with happily ever after because that is not the way life is. I think children should be exposed to some realizations that not everything is happy in the end.
Malory,
ReplyDeleteI almost read this book as I was scanning the "Most Challenged Children's Books" lists. However, none of the libraries around my house in Illinois carried it. What I have heard from you and those who have read it before, it is a dark, yet real way to discuss divorce. Divorces usually happen because two people aren't working anymore, and it seems as though sometimes books are written in such a way that the authors think that children can't handle certain aspects of harsh situations such as this. So I think you were right in your assumption that this book might help in a different light. Children should be able to hear the cold hard truth about things like divorce, and to use a story like this combined with other interpretations and types of books on the certain topic of discussion would really seem to benefit children as they ease into how to handle it and process it on their own.