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
I Wish I Could Hold Your Hand...A Child's Guide to Grief and Loss
Dr. Pat Palmer
A best friend has moved away, Dad no longer lives with the family, or a favorite pet has died. This warm, comforting book gently helps grieving children identify their feelings and learn to accept and deal with them.
This books discusses the reality you feel when you lose someone. It helps to reinforce that you are not alone. It can often validate for a child a sense of understanding when they feel that no one knows what they are going through. It helps them to identify their feelings in an effort to express them.
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
The 20 books specifically chosen to be the core selection of Bobby's Books are amazing. The core selections offer a variety of themes, relationships and family dynamics to choose from in order to serve clients respectfully and within their comfort zone. Children and their adult caretakers are able to identify needs and process feelings through the characters in the story. Insight may increase in a nurturing atmosphere that fosters understanding, acceptance and growth.
Myra D. Clark, MA, LPCC-S
Clinical Manager
Mount Carmel Hospice
