Mum and Dad Glue

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This is the kind of book that should have a place in every class, as a teacher will not always know when a child is needing the kind of emotional reassurance it gives.

It offers a slightly different approach, but the core theme is exactly as you'd expect, and rightly so. This book will be a great book to have in my classroom to assist children when coming to terms with their parents splitting up! On its own terms, it's an ideal book, but it's not a picture book for general reading - not that it aims to be.Kes was voted by the Independent as one of the TOP TEN children's authors and he is the author of the award-winning Eat Your Peas and winner of the Red House Children's Book Award.

Having personally used this book to communicate divorce with younger family members, it is definitely a book I would recommend to any teacher etc!The image of the crack is a sharp tool in showcasing how severe children's guilt towards divorce can be and how massive this change is to their lives. I am glad that the parents talked to him, that the parents made time to make sure he was fine, and that they explained everything to him. Whilst this is effective in delving deeper into the child's thoughts, I could not help but feel that it reduced the impact of the reading, as the book felt too long and drawn out. The subject matter is an extremely sensitive one, as it talks about divorce and the hardships that a child can face when they find out that their parents are splitting up.

Its about him understanding that sometimes things are out of his control and instead of him blaming himself and trying to fix it, he instead accepts it even if it does still hurt. The child's concept of sticking his parents back together with glue is so down to earth and truly places the reader into the mindset of a young person desperate for his mum and dad to stay together. This was a beautiful, a bit humorous, but also sad book about a boy and his parents who are going to separate. Would be a good book to use in a PSHE lesson or if children in the class have parents going through divorce.Essentially, the little boy, who is trying to use an inanimate tool, to fix a very real, tangible problem, comes to find that some things in life you cannot fix. Mum and Dad Glue by Kes Gray, illustrated by the winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2013. This message is conveyed in a meaningful way whilst being light hearted in the storyline approaching a difficult topic in a sensitive way. While I understand (and respect) what the book was trying to achieve in terms of accepting/coming to terms with parental separation, I felt that the words used placed a lot of pressure on the child to feel a certain way. The illustrations represent how he feels as if his whole word is breaking apart until he finds comfort in the fact that his parents love for him will never break.

If children are struggling with this in their own lives this could be used to read with them or suggest a parent read it with their child. Wonderful job on showing how a divorce will feel for a kid, like his world, like his everything is also broken apart. e. that you need ‘love’ and not ‘parent glue’ is so eloquently put across - Gray reminds us that love is a internalised feeling, that lives inside each and every one of us, and it is this image, this thought, and this emotion, that is able to override any sense of insecurity a child feels that is experiencing their parents going through a divorce.Summary: A sensitive and helpful message book about a young child trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce. A powerful poem which follows a boy who’s parents are getting divorced and feels like he is to blame and struggling to come to terms with it.