Explaining Homelessness
Family Relationships Posted: May 28th, 2019
Kids are curious about their surroundings. As my daughter and I have driven around our neighborhood and our surrounding cities, we have seen an increase in the number of people panhandling and living on the streets. There is a food pantry in my daughter’s elementary school, along with several of her fellow classmates that are homeless. Books are one way of explaining homelessness to my daughter. The following books are great tools for explaining homelessness to young children:
- I Am a Bear by Jean-François Dumont
- A Shelter in Our Car by Monica Gunning and illustrated by Elaine Pedlar
- Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
- Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Distinguished Authors and Illustrators of Children’s Books to Aid the Homeless by Michael J. Rosen and Franz Brandenberg
- Homelessness in America Today by Jennifer Bringle
- I Can Hear the Sun by Patricia Polacco
- Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children in Their Own Words and Photographs by Jim Hubbard
- Still a Family by Brenda Reeves Sturgis
-Kristine