Contemporary Children ' s Literature Recommendations for Working with Preadolescent Children of Divorce

Abstract

The writers present an annotated list of contemporary children's literature and provide recommendations for working with preadolescent children of divorced parents. They define bibliotherapy, and how its goals fall into the two categories of clinical bibliotherapy and developmental bibliotherapy, describe the benefits of the discipline, and note how books and stories can spark discussion and the sharing of personal experiences. Furthermore, they describe the methodology and reasoning for their selection of the titles discussed.