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Good-Byes (Shelley Rotner's Early Childhood Library)

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Read this to my preschoolers when we needed to say good-bye to another teacher. It was a perfect compliment to our lesson.

Photographs of children and brief text illuminate many different situations in which people say good-bye to each other.
The simple text and photos of ordinary situations express the idea that saying good-bye is a normal part of life even though some good-byes can be emotionally difficult. The authors show that even people we say good-bye to permanently can be remembered and that most good-byes are temporary. Because the book discusses different types of good-byes in a matter-of-fact, simple way, even very young children and children in different situations will relate to the ideas expressed. While the book lends itself more to individual use, the photos are large enough and the text brief enough to use with groups. While there are many good books on death and moving, there is a lack of books on just saying "good-bye." This book certainly helps fill the void.