Book List: Prescription Pad Literature
We all know books can be faithful companions in hard times. Today Palmerston North Youth Librarian Alan Dingley gets out his prescription pad and suggests excellent books for children going through tough stuff. My six-year-old daughter asked me the other day, 'Dad, why do we have to be sad?' I prefer to answer as honestly as possible without scaring them in these situations, so I replied, 'So we know that we’re missing someone, or know that something is wrong.' She looked at