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Helping Books Resources
Websites, books, bibliographies, and guides to help caring adults find and use quality children's literature about ethical and social issues, character education, values, and personal and family issues relevant to young people.
Bibliotherapy
Character Education
Family Book Discussions
Storytelling
The Helping Books/Helping Families Program is a unique concept in book discussion and storytelling. Helping Books/Helping Families can be used as a basis for parents and children to talk together about often difficult and challenging issues, and can assist in building a community of readers.
Using Picture Books to Deal with Military Separation is a bibliography created by Barbara Scott of Bucyrus Public Library and updated in August-September 2011. Download the cover sheet (PDF file, 18kb) and bibliography (PDF file, 252kb, 34p.) of books on coping with fear, coping with loss, separation anxiety, tolerance, Islam and the Middle East, and other war-related topics.
Helping Books Bookmarks (PDF file, 2.3mb). These 2-color bookmarks come 4 to a sheet and list popular topics covered by books in the Helping Books literature database.