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Together Things Michelle Vasiliu

Together Things By Michelle Vasiliu

Together Things by Michelle Vasiliu


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Summary

Her Dad used to be fun, but now he is sad. When depression strikes, a girl and her dad do different together things so he can work on getting better

Together Things Summary

Together Things: When her father feels sad, a little girl finds ways to keep the bonds of love alive by Michelle Vasiliu

Her mother says you cant see her daddys hurt because its inside his head. One in five adults experiences depression in their lifetime, but young children are often left in the dark when their mother or father suddenly cant play like they used to.

Together Things will resonate with the thousands of young children who know what its like to live with a parent experiencing mental illness, helping them to understand in an age appropriate and sensitive way that it is okay for them to feel mad or sad about their parents illness, but that, while their parent is getting better, they may have to do different things together to preserve their relationship, such as reading stories or drawing pictures, instead of the imaginative play their parent cannot currently envision through the haze of mental illness.

Through wondrous illustrations and a compelling story, young children can understand the importance of mental health discussions and that sometimes they must adapt their interactions while the people in their lives focus on their mental health.

Together Things Reviews

Compassion and empathy are the key message of the book and Vasiliu conveys that in a simple, understated, but incredibly powerful way. * NZ Booklovers Review *
A sad but beautiful picture book exploring a childs view of a parents depression. These feelings, along with the young girls confusion and anger is portrayed in darkening squiggly lines the further you venture through the book. The squiggles lighten again, and although they are still there, new connections help keep them at bay. * What book next? *
This beautiful book touches on the difficulties that children may experience in understanding the changes that occur in their parent/s if they struggle with mental illness. In this book it is the Father who feels sad. * Early Childhood Educators Australia *
Children struggling to accept change in their family caused by mental illness will benefit from this warm hearted story helping them understand the reality of depression, suffered by one in five adults. * Blue Wolf Reviews *
A sad but beautiful picture book exploring a childs view of a parents depression. These feelings, along with the young girls confusion and anger is portrayed in darkening squiggly lines the further you venture through the book. The squiggles lighten again, and although they are still there, new connections help keep them at bay. * What book next? *

About Michelle Vasiliu

Michelle Vasiliu has been a teacher and youth-worker among many roles working with children. She is now an award-winning childrens and YA author who writes sensitive, serious, sometimes sad stuff. She likes to help her readers understand and make sense of their world. She also writes fictitious, funny, frivolous stuff just because she can.

Gwynneth Jonesdrew all through her maths book at school, so left to study art at TAFE and then majored in Plant and Wildlife Illustration at the University of Newcastle. Since then, Gwynneth has been imagining and drawing madly, exhibiting and holding market stalls, and creating picture books.As well as full-time art making, Gwynneth is also studying tobe an art therapist.

Additional information

NGR9781925820294
9781925820294
1925820297
Together Things: When her father feels sad, a little girl finds ways to keep the bonds of love alive by Michelle Vasiliu
New
Hardback
Exisle Publishing
2020-02-01
32
N/A
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