Mum and Dad Glue
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- £3.49
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- £3.49
Publisher Description
This comforting, reassuring picture book will help young children come to terms with divorce and separation.
A little boy tries to find a pot of parent glue to stick his mum and dad back together. His parents have come undone and he wants to mend their marriage, stick their smiles back on and make them better.
But, as he learns, even though his parents' relationship may be broken, their love for him is not.
"An excellent book aimed squarely at young children." Nursery World
"Resonates with empathy and poignancy." Junior
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Distraught by his parents' marital difficulties, a boy decides that he needs "parent glue" to "patch their marriage up." A kindly local glue shop owner explains "hat sometimes life works out this way,/ That what must be must be," and gradually the boy comes to understand that "y parents may be broken/ But their love for me is not." Wildish's (All Better) little but large-headed hero is instantly sympathetic in both his determination and vulnerability. A recurring "cracked" motif doors, trees, and other objects are shown torn in half underscores how a parental fissure makes a child's entire world feel broken. Many of Gray's (006 and a Half) rhymes come across as platitudes ("The more I hold together/ The more I'm super strong./ The more I'll come to terms with things/ The less it will seem wrong"), but may offer comfort, along with a few choice lines ("sometimes love gets damaged,/ Way beyond repair"; "I need to make the best of things,/ There is no glue for hearts") that should help readers realize that time is most likely to heal the hurt. Ages 5 8.
