This text is aimed at children coming to terms with parental depression.

Daniel and his mom spend every summer with Grandpa at his cottage by the sea. Daniel loves these summer visits: playing baseball, walking on the beach, watching the sunset, and hearing Grandpa's stories of his days and nights on the fishing boat. As the summer passes, Grandpa changes. Daniel comes to understand that with Alzheimer's disease, Grandpa will have trouble finding all the things that belong to him, his clothes, his words, his memories, and eventually Grandpa will not remember who Daniel is. Through gentle narration and easy-to-understand explanations, Daniel learns about...

With relaxing word pictures and soothing rhymes, this calming book guides children through visual imagery exercises and engages all five of their senses to help them cope with pain and fear. Encourages images of furry puppies, colorful rainbows, gentle rain, soft clouds, white feathers, soothing water, shining sun, and fields of daisies to equip children with a way of coping with physical pain.

After Ryan's grandfather has a stroke, their close relationship has to change. With the help of his parents, rehabilitation professionals, and Grandpa himself, Ryan learns what a stroke is and the stroke's effect on his grandfather, now and in the future. He also experiences a full range of emotions, including fear, avoidance, disappointment, anger, confusion, and denial. Eventually, he accepts his disabled grandfather coming to live with the family with a positive and helpful attitude.

Tells the story of a little tree growing all alone on a cliff, by a vast and mighty sea. Through thundering storms and the cold of winter, the tree holds fast. Sustained by the natural world and the kindness and compassion of one little boy, eventually the tree grows until it can hold and shelter others.

Sharon can hardly believe the news. Di Di, her two-year-old brother, is being taken to China to spend a year with their grandparents. Why can t he go to day care or be watched by a babysitter when Mama goes back to work? Sharon wonders. But her parents say it is better for relatives to take care of little children. After Di Di first leaves, Sharon and her younger sister, Mary, pore over the photographs their grandma sends, trying to keep their little brother fresh in their minds. As the year passes, the girls become involved with school, friends, and hobbies. They think of Di Di less...