Bibliotherapy:

Life Cycle

Aging, Death, and Sexuality

The Life Cycle

The Life Cycle:Aging

Mrs. Katz and Tush / Patri ciaPolacco.Publisher: New York : Dell Publishing,c1992,Paging: [32] pAges 4-8Summary A long-lasting friendship developsbetween Larnel, a young Af rican-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely,J ewish widow, when Larnel presentsMrs. Katz with a scrawny kittenwithout a tail.

Life Cycle: Aging

Summer wheels / EveBunting ; illustrated byThomas B. Allen.Publisher: San Diego, CA :

Harcourt Brace J ovanovich,c1992.

Paging: [46] p.

SummaryThe Bicycle Man f ixes up oldbicycles and of fers both hisf riendship and the use of thebikes to the neighborhoodkids.

Life Cycle: Aging

The Memory Box / Mary Bahr; illustrated by DavidCunningham.

Publisher : Morton Grove,Ill . : A. Whitman, 1992.

Paging:[32]Summary

When Gramps realizes he hasAlzheimer's disease, hestarts a memory box with hisgrandson, Zach to keepmemories of all the timesthey have shared.

Life Cycle: Aging

I f I f orget, you remember / CarolLynch Williams.Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press,1998.Paging; 201 p. 22 cm.Reading level: Ages 9-12 Summary Twelve-year-old Elyse's plan to writ ean award-winning novel during thesummer is interrupted when hergrandmother, who has Alzheimer'sdisease, moves in with the family.

Life Cycle: Aging

The Life Cycle:Death

The Life Cycle:Title

A summer to die / by Lois Lowry

Publisher: New York : Dell,c1977.

Paging:{120}

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventful death.

The Life Cycle:Sexuality

•Information should take into account readers developmental level.

•Information should be accurate with appropriate terminology.

•The approach should maintain human dignity.

•Books should indicate that there are many values about sex.

•Books should avoid perpetuating myths and falsehoods.

•Books should acknowledge and value sexuality in human beings.

•Gay, lesbian or bisexual characters should be portrayed as fairlyas heterosexual characters.These characters should not be exclusively victims or persecutors and should not be feared becauseof sexual orientation.

As Outlined in Children’s Literature: An Issues Approach byMasha Kabakow Rudman

The Life Cycle:Sexuality

•Characters should not be punished because they are gay, but societal pressures should be reported with accuracy.

•The happy ending should not be that the gay person reforms of falls in love with someone of the opposite sex.

•Although homosexual explorations may be part of heterosexual development, it should not necessarily be that all young people will outgrow it.

•Sensitive authors communicate a tolerance of those who disagree with them.

•When too much information is conveyed with words and pictures,this can be threatening to young children. When the emphasis is on mature bodies, the implications can make the intended young audience anxious.

The Life Cycle:Sexuality

•Stereotypes about interest, capability, and behavior of males and females should be challenged.

•Illustrations should avoid stereotypes. There should be a range of people of people across ethnic, cultural, economic and age groups.

•Demeaning humor should be avoided

•Books that are titillating may send an uncomfortable•Lesson.

•The aim is to make the reader:Comfortable,Responsible,Informed,

about his or her sexuality and about sexual activities in general.

Life Cycle: Sexuality

Life Cycle: Sexuality

Life Cycle: Sexuality

Life Cycle: Sexuality

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Topic C: LIFE CYCLEDEATHDealing with Death video cliphttp://pbskids.org/itsmylife/video/index.html#divorce

Booklist on deathhttp://www.fountaindale.lib.il.us/CSD/death.pdfImpact of parental death on childrenhttp://ohioline.osu.edu/flm01/pdf/FS11.pdf*Teachers and Schools can aid grieving studentshttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_200404/ai_n9345144Children and griefhttp://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0304-grief.html*Brochures on a variety of losses: death of a sibling, a child etc.http://www.compassionatefriends.org/Brochures/brochures.shtml

  SUICIDETeenage suicidehttp://www.ericdigests.org/pre-923/teenage.htmPreventing suicide: A resource for teachers and other school staffhttp://www.who.int/mental_health/media/en/62.pdfTeen Suicidehttp://www.focusas.com/Suicide.html

AGEING AND AGEISM

• AGEING AND AGEISMhttp://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ageism.html

• Modules Ageismhttp://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~aging/ModuleAgeism.html#anchor732139

• Overcoming ageism through children’s literaturehttp://www.parentinginformation.org/ageism.htm