Crisis and children: books to help children through trying times.Play Therapy With Children in Crisis edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford Press, August 1999, $47.00, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-572-30485-5 Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When A Special Person Dies by Marge E. Heegaard Fairview Press, April 1999, $9.95, ISBN 1-577-49085-1 A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma by Margaret M. Holmes, illustrated by Cary Pillo American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is a professional organization representing psychology in the US. Description and history The association has around 150,000 members and an annual budget of around $70m. , February 2001, $14.95, ISBN 1-557-98642-8 Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children About Violence by Dominic Cappello Hyperion, April 2000, $12.95, ISBN 0-786-88549-1 Parenting Through a Crisis: Helping Kids In Times of Loss, Grief and Change by Barbara Coloroso HarperResource, November 2000, $24.00, ISBN 0-060-19856-7 The Right Book, The Right Time: Helping Children Cope by Martha C. Grindler, Michael McKenna and Beverly D. Stratton Allyn & Bacon, December 1996, $31.00, ISBN 0-205-17272-5 Coping with Death and Grief by Marge E. Heegaard Lerner Publications, August 1990, $19.95, ISBN 0-822-50043-4 Together We'll Get Through This by Karen L. Carney Dragonfly dragonfly, any insect of the order Odonata, which also includes the damselfly. Members of this order are generally large predatory insects and characteristically have chewing mouthparts and four membranous, net-veined wings; they undergo complete metamorphosis. Publishing, May 1997, $7.95, ISBN 0-966-78200-3 Scared Child: Helping Children Overcome Traumatic Events by Barbara A. Brooks John Wiley & Sons September 1996, $16.95, ISBN 0-471-08284-8 April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing See Terrorism "The Oklahoma City Bombing" (Sidebar); Venue "Venue and the Oklahoma City Bombing Case" (Sidebar). By Nancy Lamb Illustrated by Floyd Cooper Lothrop Lee & Shepard, April 1996, $16.00, ISBN 0-688-14666-X When Someone Very Special Dies by Marge E. Heegaard Fairview Press, 1988, $6.95, ISBN 0-962-05020-2 The history of the development of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. children's literature is a story that has not been recovered completely and told in its fullness. Various scholars are working diligently toward that goal. The academic journal African American Review The African American Review is a quarterly journal and the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association. devoted a special issue to the topic in 1998, made up of articles by many of the researchers. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reached early high points with slave narratives and other respected reference books now include pieces on this body of work. In addition, there are individual efforts such as Rudine Sims Bishop's Shadow and Substance and Dianne Johnson-Feelings's The Best of the Brownies's Book (Oxford University Press Children's Books) that represent significant but limited portions of the history. As the new director of the Children's Defense Fund The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a national organization that is committed to the social Welfare of children. Founded in 1973, the nonprofit group uses its annual $9 million budget to lobby legislators and to speak out publicly on a broad array of issues on the law, the family, and Langston Hughes Library, I am eager to move forward and build on the library mission to serve as the leading national repository for the best quality children's literature by authors and illustrators of African descent and on the black experience for all children. To learn more go to www.chidrensdefense.org. Khafre Abif is the director of the Children's Defense Fund Langston Hughes Library in Clinton, TN |
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