Dinosaurs Divorce

Dinosaur Divorce

Author: Marc Tolon Brown

Type or emotional/crisis issue(s) addressed: divorce

Year of Publication: 1988

Publisher & Location: Little Brown and Company, Boston

ISBN#: 9780316109963

Target Age Level: Upper and Lower elementary

# of Pages: 32

Quality of Illustrations: The illustrations in this book are of dinosaurs and are colorful and imaginative.

Brief Summary: 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.

Personal Comments/Biases, and/or Things to Consider When Using This Book With Children: The different major sections of the book address these new situations one at a time. The author covers topics such as why parents divorce, ways that a child might feel about divorce and how the child can deal with those feelings, what happens after divorce, living with one parent, visiting a parent, having two houses, celebrating special occasions, telling friends about the divorce, meeting parents’ “new friends,” living with stepparents, and having stepbrothers or stepsisters.

Activity: Make a before and after chart of before the divorce and after the divorce. Students will then see the change that happens with a family that is going through a divorce.