It's too hot, there are too many people away, and there is too little to do.
It is the time between the ending of the summer and the start of the school year, when time moves too slowly, unmarked by expected routines. The setting is the murky month of August in Brooklyn. We think it is a powerfully moving and useful book for older children, parents, and therapists as well. Pickle Juice is an early chapter book, written in lyrical free verse for children grades 1-3. In Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, a first book by Julie Sternberg, we have all of these. It is rare to find a children's book with a problem of ordinary loss and a real, honest, healing transformation. It is rare to find a children's book in which a parent can help a child with her feelings, but not appear too good to be true.
It is rare to find a child narrator who knows her own experience well enough to show it to her reader. Here, Kandall and Karliner recommend books (and one in particular) that can help children deal with difficult changes.īy Elizabeth Kandall, Ph.D. Rather than feeling we have to rush in and "fix" our child's pain, they tell us, sometimes the best thing we can do is respect their feelings and help them name and cope with them. Clinical psychologists Elizabeth Kandall and Rachel Karliner remind us that transitions and even loss can be an opportunity for growth. Spending a whole month at Dad's-or grandma and grandpa's. Summer can be a time of numerous and challenging transitions for your child or stepchild.
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