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Mom and Dad Glue by Kes Gray
4.0

I love this concept. The book carries such a strong and genuine message that a lot of young children often need to hear. 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.
Even if a child has been raised by a single parent, their parents split before they were born for example, they could still benefit from a book like this.

I also /loved/ the artistic concept that all the things around the child on each page were broken too. I think that is a great way to help children see the metaphor of how sometimes when things are going wrong for us, the whole world can seem broken.

I would love to have a version of this book that is slight more general, without gendered parents for example to make sure all children could relate better to it if needed, but even so I think it's a great one.