To escape her father's abuse, Emily and her mother come to a shelter where they find a safe place to stay with other women and children in similar circumstances.
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3. Emily recalls her father's abusive behavior (yelling pictured, and hitting and broken arm alluded to) that has brought her and her mother to a shelter for battered women and their children. Children play, talk out disagreements rather than hit, and plant bulbs so that in the spring the flowers will "make us think of the kids and their mothers who have come here and gone away to start a new life." The facile but reassuring story tells youngsters that there are safe places, that it is all right to be frightened, and that things work out. (At the story's conclusion, Emily and her mother are on the way to an apartment, a new school, and a new job for the mother.) Graphite drawings show a clean and comforting shelter, warm supportive adult women, and a multicultural population.?Susan Hepler, Alexandria City Public Schools, VA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 5-8. The "safe place" of the title is the "big white house on the hill" where Emily and Mama go during the middle of the night to escape from Daddy. This simply written concept book does a commendable job of maintaining the child's perspective about an abusive parent: "She [Emily] had tried to be good, but . . . the fighting didn't stop." The soft pencil drawings evoke the safety and warmth of life at the shelter, where Emily gets to know the other moms and kids, and where she learns that violence is unacceptable: "We don't ever [hit] here. Here we talk it over." This useful book ends on a convincingly hopeful note when--after a considerable stay--Emily and Mama leave the safe house to begin a new life. Julie Corsaro
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A supportive and reassuring book about escaping family abuse,
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This review is from: A Safe Place (Hardcover)
A SAFE PLACE is a highly sensitive and thoughtful book about Emily and her mother as they escape to
a shelter for abused women and children. In a story that is appropriately understated and gently told, Maxine Trottier acknowledges Emily's complicated feelings of guilt, displacement, and concern for her father. Yet she weaves Emily's fear and sadness with the delicious relief of living in a place where there is no danger or anger, a place where her mother can relax and smile. Friedman's pencil drawings capture the range of emotions experienced by all of the residents of the safe house. A comforting and reassuring book.
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