Dinosaurs Divorce (Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families)

This is about the different emotions a child can feel during a divorce. As a child who went through a divorce I feel brown accuratley dipicts all of the emotions a child could feel during a divorce. I doo feel it was a responsible choice to illustrate the emotions with dinosaurs instead of humans.

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In my opinion i feel this is a book best read to a child by a parent because of the content and because the book is kind of lenghthy and may be hard read to tackle for its target age group.

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This is a book that students should have for outside reading if their parents are divorced or something. It tells about all the different times of the year that having divorced parents may have a little trouble handling.

This book explains to children why sometimes parents get divorced and ways that they can deal with it. It discusses after the divorce, living with one parent, visiting parents and having two homes, telling your friends, meeting parent's new friends, liveing with step parents, and having step

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brothers and sisters. It explains that it is not the child's fault when parents get divorced and they should not blaim themselves.

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A wonderful guide on how to accept parents getting divorced. Many parents divorce and children tend to feel that its their fault or they could have changed the way things turned out. Kids need to know that it is never their fault when parents get divorced. This book gives several ways for children

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to cope with divorce. It lets them know what to expect and how to react to things when they come up. Such as a new step parent. I think this is a great book for young children who parents may get divorced and they dont fully understand how to handle the situation.

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This book covers the terminology and the process of divorce in a way a child can understand. Though it is written for children it is complex and thorough. It provides tips for dealing with your issues about the divorce, how to handle living with one parent, how to handle hloidays, telling your

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friends, etc. A definite read for a child having this issue at home.

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This book explains in a thorough yet easy to understand manner aspects of what might happen before, during, and after parents divorce. The book speaks to children about how to cope with different scenarios and changes during divorce, and is accompanied by illustrations of a family of dinosaurs. I

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like this book because of it's pragmatic way of explaining divorce to children and would want to use it in my teaching while discussing family units. I think this book is appropriate for Grades 1-3 surrounding themes of change, divorce, and most especially family structures.

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This book is actually one of my favorite books of all time. I read this book when my parents got divorced, so it has a special spot in my heart. One reason why this book always resonated with me was the illustrations. I felt like I could relate because the characters were DINOSAURS. There was no

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"black" or "white" or "christian" or "jewish". The dinosaurs could represent anyone, which is a safe feeling. Also, the dinosaurs were just so silly looking. They have these huge nostrils that always managed to crack me up.
Another reason why I liked this book was because of the fluidity. I like how the book is separated into different sections, such as how a child may feel during/after the divorce. This gives each section meaning, and they usually flow into the next section.
The main idea of this book is that divorce is ok, even for dinosaurs.

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Summary:

This informational book was basically a guide for children to help them tolerate and understand divorce. To make it seem cute and funny, the authors used dinosaurs as the characters in all of the illustrations and the title. Throughout the book it explains what divorce is and why parents

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get divorced. It expresses what kinds of feelings and emotions are natural to feel as a child going through this kind of experience. It gives insight to children about what life may be like with their parents after divorce and what it might be like living with one parent. It talks about visiting your parents, having two homes, celebrating holidays, telling your friends, meeting parents’ new friends, living with stepparents, having step siblings and basically all the ins and outs of divorce. It really is a ‘guide for changing families.’

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Having just read this book at twenty-four years old, I really wish I would’ve had this book when I was ten years old and having to deal with my parents’ divorce. Going through a divorce at a young age can be really confusing and hard to deal with. I know I struggled for a long time trying to sort out my emotions and feelings about my family and especially my parents. I held a lot of resentment towards both of them for a long time and I wish there had been a book for me to read to cope with the issues. I really enjoyed this book because although it looks like a children’s story book from the outside, it’s actually an informational guide for children who are dealing with divorce within their families. It’s even equipped with a table of contents and glossary on the first two pages. I also really liked that it had something new to talk about on each page. It was almost set up like a comic book strip, with multiple situations and pictures to go along with the words. This book is remarkable because it really hits on all of the things I wish someone would have told me as a child about divorce and it does so in a very logical progression of ideas. The author was really smart to start with explaining why parents’ divorce and immediately explain the feelings you as a child might start experiencing. I also thought it was really smart that the authors touched on how life would be after divorce, to kind of gear a child up for what to expect next. The part about how to tell your friends and how to deal with your parents dating someone new where the two sections that really hit home for me. When I was going through my parents’ divorce, it was really hard for me to explain what was going on to my friends and instead I moved away without even telling many of them. I also had a really rough time when my parents started dating again and I often was really rude and mean to both my parents and their girlfriends and boyfriends. Looking back now, if I had had a book like this to guide me along the way, things might have been different for me. This book really is a great book to teach children that divorce is natural and ok. I think it could really give a lot of children good advice and help them cope with this big change in their lives and among their families. It also helps that the story is conveyed through dinosaurs, letting children know that even dinosaurs divorce.

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I like how the author decided to make an informational book about divorce in a fun way. He did this by making the story about dinosaurs and setting the book up like a comic strip. Marc Brown also made it easier for children to understand the book by making headings. For example, he wrote "Why

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Parents Divorce," "After The Divorce" and other helpful headings at the top of the pages. The central message is Divorce.

Summary: In this book, the author describes what divorce is, why it happens, what feelings you may experiences, how to cope with the negative feelings, and events that could possibly occur after the divorce.

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Some time parents don't get along and the best thing is to be apart, but it's the child fault and it can be overwhelming. This is a great book to help kids and parents push through divorce.

This book was about how to handle divorce in families. It was broken down into chapters that helped break down different steps. This book would be helpful with the divorce rate through the roof to give kids a book to help handle how they're feeling. I would use this for K-4th grade. Illustrations:

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mixed media

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