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At Daddy’s On
Saturdays
By Linda Walvoord
Girard
Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago, 1987
Reviewed by Laura Harting
This book is quite dated with pictures of telephones with
cords and letters coming in the mail.
I think a child in 2014 would have difficulty relating to these ideas
and images.
Katie’s
daddy moves out and Katie feels discarded, angry, and sad. She is worried that she might not see her father again and that he will forget about her. This story is about Daddy assuring Katie that he will not forget about her
and keeping his commitment to pick her up and spend time with her every
Saturday.
This book
addresses the feelings and worries about divorce of an elementary school aged
child. However, there are many other
more recent books that address these same issues, making it difficult to
recommend this book for a child today.
Laura Harting, LCSW, is a child and family therapist in Paoli, Pennsylvania.
