3. Choices of Books

8/9/2019 3. Choices of Books

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BIBLIOTHERAPY

CHOICES OF

BOOKANGELADEVUNG, NUR IZZAH ZAWANI, SAFRIANUGERAH, SITI AMERAHTESL R1


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Alice Afterimageby Lulu Derare


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Alicia is killed in an accident

The story begins with Alicias mother waking

in the night worried that Alicia is not home! The book "#ickly $ashes back to Alicia

begging her mother %or &ermission to go o#twith a boy the dri'er o% the car!

The reminder o% the book is written thro#ghthe (lter o% other teens Alicias %riends!

) Her %riends #se 'arying co&ing method toad*#st to Alicias death +gi'ing gentle

e,am&les o% ways %or a reader to co&e withthe death o% a %riend-


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This book lea'es readers with astrong sense o% ha'ing e,&eriencedthe same loss as Alicias %riends

altho#gh we are ne'er gi'en thechance to meet Alicia!


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.ily has been silent %or two years since thedeath o% her older brother %rom carbon

mono,ide &oisoning while &laying in the %amilybarn!

.ily kee&s her lo'e o% /ancy 0rew book andgossi& secret %rom e'eryone!

The ad#lts in .ilys li%e are e,tremely &atientwith her altho#gh many o% them belie'e thatshe has s#1ered damage %rom to the carbonmono,ide that killed her brother!

2hen .ily is (nally able to s&eak the readerlearns that she %eels g#ilty %or the death o% herbrother and has ke&t to hersel% that she sh#tthe door to the barn the night her brother died!


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Ill#strates .ilys co&ing skills3 her lo'e o%reading sol'ing mysteries b#t also

demonstrates an abnormal grie'ing&rocess!

wo#ld be an easy book to #se with

children and teens who are %amiliar witha more normal grie'ing &rocess3acti'ities wo#ld incl#de ha'ing readerscome #& with alternate ways %or .ily to

co&e to write down what she wo#ld sayi% she co#ld talk or to e,&lore sharing%eelings witho#t words as thro#ghmo'ement or m#sic!


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Nana Upstairs& Nana

Downstairsby Tommie

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He relates his tr#e story o% ha'ingtwo grandmothers he reg#larly

'isits one who is always in %ront o%the sto'e downstairs and one whostays in her bedroom #&stairs!

He describes /ana 0ownstairs ashel&ing /ana 5&stairs sit in herchair by tying her in &lace! Tommy

has /ana 0ownstairs tie him in tooso he can talk with /ana 5&stairs!


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She tells Tommy stories abo#tthe 6.ittle 4eo&le7! Tommy alsolo'es to watch both his /anascomb o#t their hair!

2hen Tommys mother tells himthat /ana 5&stairs had died andwill only be in his memories

Tommy decides that a %allingstar is a kiss %rom /ana 5&stairs!


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The tone o% the story is gentle altho#gh/ana 5&stairs dies "#ickly *#st as the

reader is acce&ting that 'isiting her is areg#lar acti'ity %or Tommy!

Tommy learns to acce&t that /ana

5&stairs has died and is &re&aredwhen many years later he learns o% thedeath o% /ana 0ownstairs!

This book &resents death to the readeras an acce&table e'ent and shows thatTommy %o#nd his own e,&lanation %or/ana 5&stairs dying!


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Children e,&eriencing the losso% a lo'ed one co#ld recreate

an e'ent with the lost %amilymember by acting o#t ahome mo'ie or by drawing a

series o% still shots telling thestory o% a %a'o#rite time!


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$ee%er &' S&le()Tere(a Ba#e*a!+


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S#&ryl!e- The story is abo#t the 0eath and a h#mble cobbler!

The 0eath comes to take the h#mble cobbler b#t is&ers#aded to wait #ntil the cobbler made him anew &air o% shoes!

2hen 0eath ret#rns the cobbler "#ickly &ro&oses

another &air o% shoes and 0eath agrees witho#tthinking!

5ntil one day 0eath decides that it is time %or himto take the cobblers so#l des&ite the cobblers

&rotests! The cobbler re&lies that he has gi'en the 0eath his

sole many times o'er!

0eath is am#sed and allows the cobbler to kee&his so#l #ntil the shoes the cobbler made him wearo#t!


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Rea(&!- A &re&aratory story abo#t death %or children!

The book may not &resent a realistic &ict#re o%dying b#t it does &ro'ide a way to introd#ce tochildren that e'eryone will die someday!

As a &re&aratory book the story does not need to

incl#de the death o% a character3 the to&ic can beaddressed and &rocessed by the child at a latertime when the in%ormation is needed!

The ill#strations in the book %eat#re large swaths o%

colo#r s#&&lemented with details %or children toen*oy!

0eath is &ict#red in his cowl b#t instead o% askeletal %ace he has an all)white co#ntenancealtho#gh he still carries a scythe!


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