Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Age: 8+
Interests: being the new kid, school problems, divorced parents, single parent, loneliness, writing
Dear Mr. Henshaw
06 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in Books, books 8+, Uncategorized Tags: diary, divorce/separation, family, loneliness, new kid, school, single parent, writers
Millions
08 Oct 2014 2 Comments
in Books, books 8+ Tags: crime, ghosts, money, morality, religion, siblings, single parent
Millions
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Age: 8+
Interests: money, religion, morality, crime, single parent, siblings, ghosts More
Goggle-Eyes
08 Sep 2014 1 Comment
in Books, books 10+ Tags: activism, bad behavior, family, politics, single parent, step-parents, stepfathers
Goggle-Eyes
by Anne Fine
Age: 10+
Interests: family, divorce, single mom, politics, activism, stepfathers
A Gathering of Days
26 May 2014 Leave a comment
in Books, books 8+ Tags: American history, country life, dealing with change, death, family, farm, history, morality, single parent
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
Age: 8+
Interests: history, American history, single parent families, farm life, country life, ethical questions, death
Amazing Grace
12 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: single parent, strong girls, theatre
Amazing Grace
by Mary Hoffman
illustrations by Caroline Binch
Age: 4+
Interests: acting, theatre, imagination, strong girls, single parent
Harry and Hopper
10 Jun 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: death, dogs, father, grieving, pets, single parent
Harry and Hopper
by Margaret Wild
illustrations by Freya Blackwood
Age: 3+
Interests: dogs, pets, death, grieving, fathers, single parents
Adam of the Road
30 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Books, books 8+, books 9+ Tags: adventure, British history, castle, dogs, history, knights, medieval history, music, single parent, travel
by Elizabeth Janet Gray (aka Elizabeth Gray Vining)
Age: 8+ (read to); 9+ (independent reading)
Interests: history, medieval times, British history, knights, castles, dogs, travel, adventure
A Monster Calls
11 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Books, books 12+ Tags: bad behavior, bullying, death, family, grieving, illness, monsters, single parent
A Monster Calls
text by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd
illustrated by Jim Kay
Age: 12+
Interests: illness, death, grieving, monsters, nightmares
Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?
21 May 2012 1 Comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, bears, bedtime, night, single parent
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1988
Martin Waddell, text
Barbara Firth, illustrations
Candlewick Press, 1988
30 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: bears, night, bedtime, dark, fears, single parent
Hiawatha’s Childhood
04 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, birds, First Nations, nature, poetry, single parent
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1984
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Errol Le Cain, illustrations
Faber and Faber, 1984
30 pp.
Age: 3
Interests: poetry, nature, First Nations, birds, animals
Also by this illustrator: The Cabbage Princess, Thorn Rose, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Snow Queen, The Enchanter’s Daughter, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and many others
Rarest Kind of Best 