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Peters, Andrew Fusek , Peters, Polly

The Color Thief: A Family's Story of Depression

32 pp. | Whitman | September, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8075-1273-9 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Karin Littlewood. A young boy describes his father's depression. The child worries that it might be his fault and rejoices when--with medication and counseling--his father gradually returns to the family. The story effectively conveys some of the feelings around mental illness and uses visual and verbal imagery to describe the disease. This is a useful and affecting book.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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