A distressed little girl expresses her feelings when her mother goes to the hospital. Time drags and the child thinks of her constantly. Her understanding father helps her to cross off the days until she can visit and takes her to the hospital. When her mother comes home, normal life happily resumes. The nature of the woman’s illness is not specified, but she is hospitalized periodically, which would make the book appropriate for children whose parents require chemotherapy, for example, as well as being generally useful for any parental hospital stay. The text is gentle, empathetic, encouraging, and easily understood. Ages 4 and up.
© 1995
Audience: Children
Contributors: Life, Kay, ill.
ISBN: 0807588946
Language: Eng