Children's Books for Divorcing Parents

Divorce Book Review by Nancy Johnson-Gallagher highlights a book for parents to read with children during the divorce process.

DIVORCE BOOK REVIEWS

Reviewer: Nancy Johnson-Gallagher. LICSW, Mediator

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

It’s Not Your Fault, Koko Bear: A Read Together Book For Parents and Young Children During Divorce

Vick Lansky: author of Divorce Book for Parents (1998)

This book has been a standard in the field for parents and counselors alike for years. Children whose parents are divorcing have their world shaken, and their parents abilities to parent are often shaken concurrently. The beauty of this book is that each issue is addressed for the child and there is complementary commentary on each page for the parents on how best to address their children’s feelings of loss, anger, self-blame and fear. Dependent upon the child’s maturity this book is best used for the child between the ages of two or three, to seven or eight.