Callum Kindly and the Very Weird Child: A story about sharing your home with a new child

by Sarah Naish, Sarah Naish, Megan Evans (Illustrations)

Callum Kindly is a kind and caring boy, who lives alone with his mum. That is until Katie Careful comes to stay with them who Callum thinks is a very weird child! Katie manages to get in the way whenever Callum wants to speak to his mum or have snuggle time. She cries and sulks on his birthday and she steals his toy car. Luckily, his mum can explain to him why Katie acts differently. Written by an adoptive mum and her daughter, this is a story that explains what it's like for children aged 3-10 living with foster or adopted children, or with new children in the family.

Genres: Adoption

32 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2017

Reviews

[Sandra Matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

The messaging in this book is BANG ON. I'm a kinship mom (it's been 43.5 years of it) and while there was so much attention on our kinship child from day one, my bio kids became wall flowers. There weren't any books that helped my bio kids before this. They could not understand the love for them hadn't changed. This book and series is a must have for all foster and kinship families from day one. Especially when it comes to kinship, you learn everything backwards and don't have the same training as you would with foster care. Please please please, if you know of anyone who has entered into kinship caregiving, gift them these series of books. Thank you for putting this series together :)

[Jessica Nyers-Saunders]

Really great resource to help children understand behaviors resulting from childhood trauma