Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families
Illustrator
Marc Brown; Laurene Krasny Brown
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Year
1986
ISBN
9780316112482
Pages
32 pages
Genre
nonfiction
Format
picture book
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
AD710L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Separation; Single parent; Step parent; Divorce; separated parents; separate homes; two homes; co-parenting; single mother; single father; step mother; step father; divorced parents
Main Character
multiple
Race/Ethnicities
Dinosaurs
Family Formation
divorced parents
Awards
Recommended Literature: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, 2002 California Department of Education
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001 H.W. Wilson
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006 H.W. Wilson
Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 1989
Nominee Kentucky
Keywords
blame; fighting; emotions; love; hard times; understanding
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Brown, Marc and Brown, Laurene Krasny, "Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families" (1986). Diverse Families. 394.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/394