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Laurie Tells
When her mother doesn't believe her, eleven-year-old Laurie tells a supportive aunt that she is being sexually abused by her father.
1 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1994
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March 21, 2012
Beautiful, poignant, and heartbreaking. A young girl describes, in poetry, her pain from her father's betrayal. Laurie was first sexually approached by her father when she was nine, and now, at age eleven, is bursting with hurt and helplessness. Will she have the courage to tell someone? Who will believe her, if her own mother won't?
Yes, this is a children's books, and praise be to heaven that there are children's books like this. I wish they were more popular, more accepted, more circulated. Kids need these sensitive-topic books -- they need to learn that they're not alone, or that this kind of thing goes on. Sure, it may be introducing them to evil at a young age, but I'm sure I'd have them learn about it prematurely THIS way.
...Not that sexual education is even premature by first grade anymore.
Yes, this is a children's books, and praise be to heaven that there are children's books like this. I wish they were more popular, more accepted, more circulated. Kids need these sensitive-topic books -- they need to learn that they're not alone, or that this kind of thing goes on. Sure, it may be introducing them to evil at a young age, but I'm sure I'd have them learn about it prematurely THIS way.
...Not that sexual education is even premature by first grade anymore.
April 26, 2020
“Now it’s not the monsters and spooks that scare me. Now it’s my dad.”
A girl whose father is sexually abusing her goes through all the emotions and tries to decide who she can trust enough to help her with this terrible secret.
One of the first picture books to address this issue. It was a required text in my graduate school children’s literature class.
A girl whose father is sexually abusing her goes through all the emotions and tries to decide who she can trust enough to help her with this terrible secret.
One of the first picture books to address this issue. It was a required text in my graduate school children’s literature class.
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