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From: Miriam Budin <miriam>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:14:33 -0400
I agree that Eleanor Schick's MAMA and Howard Kaplan's WAITING TO SING are excellent books that treat the death of a mother. Kaplan's book is somewhat poetic--perhaps not for everyone suffering such a loss, but the narrator is a boy. Schick's book is a little more down-to-earth, and is narrated by a girl. Both the mothers have succumbed to illness.
Another book in which the narrator's mother is struggling with cancer is Charissa Sgouros' A PILLOW FOR MY MOM.
Judith Vigna's SAYING GOODBYE TO DADDY is about a child whose father dies in a car accident.
A wonderful work of longer fiction in which the narrator's mother has died of unspecified illness is Rodman Philbrick's THE YOUNG MAN AND THE SEA.
I hope this short list is helpful.
Miriam Lang Budin Children's Librarian Chappaqua Library, NY
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:14:33 -0400
I agree that Eleanor Schick's MAMA and Howard Kaplan's WAITING TO SING are excellent books that treat the death of a mother. Kaplan's book is somewhat poetic--perhaps not for everyone suffering such a loss, but the narrator is a boy. Schick's book is a little more down-to-earth, and is narrated by a girl. Both the mothers have succumbed to illness.
Another book in which the narrator's mother is struggling with cancer is Charissa Sgouros' A PILLOW FOR MY MOM.
Judith Vigna's SAYING GOODBYE TO DADDY is about a child whose father dies in a car accident.
A wonderful work of longer fiction in which the narrator's mother has died of unspecified illness is Rodman Philbrick's THE YOUNG MAN AND THE SEA.
I hope this short list is helpful.
Miriam Lang Budin Children's Librarian Chappaqua Library, NY
-- Miriam Lang Budin Children's Librarian Chappaqua Library, NY --Received on Wed 28 Sep 2005 03:14:33 PM CDT
