The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care
Illustrator
Angie J. Przystas
Publisher
Roger Owen Rossman
Publication Year
1999
ISBN
9780967701004
Pages
16 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care is an easy-to-read, short story with beautiful, watercolor illustrations. The book follows a fictional young girl, Kit, who is taken from her mother to the safety, and different world, of a foster home. On Kit's first night in foster care, she becomes friends with a star outside her bedroom window. The star tells Kit about other foster children it has seen. Through the story, the star is a source of comfort for Kit as she experiences many emotions and adjusts to all the new things in her foster home.
Grade Level
PK-1
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Foster care; foster child; foster home
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
foster mother and father
Keywords
stars; social workers; new home; feelings; questions
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Lovell, Cynthia Miller, "The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care" (1999). Diverse Families. 333.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/333