This collection contains materials from the DIVerse Families bibliography organized by format.
DIVerse Families is a comprehensive bibliography that demonstrates the growing diversity of families in the United States. This type of bibliography provides teachers, librarians, counselors, adoption agencies, children/young adults, and especially parents and grandparents needing to empower their children with materials that reflect their families.
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Girls are Not Chicks Coloring Book
Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak
Truly fun for all ages, this unique coloring book subversively and playfully examines the female gender stereotypes that pervade daily life.
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Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls: A Coloring Book
Jacinta Bunnell and Irit Reinheimer
Cartoons by several contributors with captions satirizing traditional gender roles for children.
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Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon: Coloring Book
Jacinta Bunnell
Re-creating nursery rhymes and fairy tales, this radical activity book takes anecodotes from the lives of real kids and mixes them with classic tales to create true-to-life characters, situations, and resolutions.
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What's a Foster Family, Anyway?
Martine Golden Inlay and Jodi Jensen
This book provides a much needed resource in helping children cope with placement into foster care.
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When Mom and Dad Separate: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief from Divorce
Marge Heegaard
Encourages children to sort out their painful feelings about the divorce of their parents through drawings.
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When Something Feels Wrong: A Survival Guide about Abuse for Young People
Deanna S. Pledge
Provides checklists, journaling ideas, and other positive ways of dealing with being physically, sexually, and/or emotionally abused, emphasizing the importance of talking about what has happened and getting help.