Recommended Reading: Kids and Divorce
Talking about divorce with kids is a difficult and emotional process. These books can help with understanding what’s happening.
4-7 years old
My Family's Changing: A First Look at Family Break-Up
By Pat Thomas
Are there children in your life who are experiencing the pain of their parents’ divorce? This book will help give advice and information in a gentle and sensitive way. It will help children face their fears, worries and questions when the family is going through a break-up.
2-5 years old
My Family's Changing: A First Look at Family Break-Up
By Claire Masurel
The gently reassuring text focuses on what is gained rather than what is lost when parents divorce, while the sensitive illustrations, depicting two unique homes in all their small details, firmly establish Alex’s place in both of them. Two Homes will help children — and parents — embrace even the most difficult of changes with an open and optimistic heart.
4-6 years old
Dinosaurs Divorce
By Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
A comprehensive, sensitive guide for changing families, Dinosaurs Divorce helps readers understand what divorce means, why it happens, and how to best cope with everyone’s feelings.
8-12 years old
The Suitcase Kid
By Jacqueline Wilson
When Andy West’s parents get divorced, the plucky 10-year-old is left without a home to call her own. Both her parents have remarried, and Andy finds herself shuttling back and forth between their houses–one week with Mom and “Bill the Baboon,” one week with Dad and Carrie.
8-10 years old
Dear Mr. Henshaw
By Beverly Cleary
From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.