Grief in Picturebooks: An Evaluative Rubric

Lisa Von Drasek

Abstract


Every young child experiences loss. From the first time her mother leaves the room, a typically developing child has no framework to process what Piaget has labeled “object permanence.”1 Mothers or fathers who have removed themselves physically from the sight of a baby have disappeared. Thus we witness the inconsolable sobbing child at daycare drop-off whose parent is “gone!”

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n4.25

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