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Book Week: Team’s picks for best stories to support kids

To celebrate Book Week, our team has gathered their favourite stories to share with the children and families we support.

 

These are books our team finds to help children understand complicated emotions, navigate feelings of loneliness, and, most importantly, know they are loved by their parents, even when apart.

 

Together we can inspire a love of reading!

 

SHINE for Kids Team Picks

 

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Further Recommendations

 

My Daddy’s in Jail

Janet M Bender, 2015

 

Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family when a Loved One is Incarcerated

Becky Birtha, 2017

 

The Sun Still Shines

SHINE for Kids, written by dads in custody from Clarence Correctional Centre

 

When Parents Go To Jail

Brad Gosse, 2021

 

Missing Daddy

Mariame Kaba, 2018

 

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Leslie Connor, 2016

 

Visiting day

Jacqueline Woodson, 2002

 

Hazelnut Days

Emmanuel Bourdier, 2014

 

Mama Loves Me from Away

Pat Brisson, 2004

 

The Prison Alphabet: An Educational Picture Book

Muntaquim Muhammad, 2014

 

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Janae Marks, 2020

 

The Year the Swallows Came Early

Kathryn Fitzmaurice, 2006

 

The Night Dad Went to Jail: What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail

Melissa Higgins, 2011

 

When Andy’s father went to prison

Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1990

 

Almost Like Visiting

Shannon Ellis, 2016

 

Kofi’s Mom

Richard Dyches, 2016

 

Tyrell

Coe Booth, 2006

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A beautiful story reminding children that they are always loved, even when not with their family.

SHINE for Kids team member, Book Week