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Was It the Chocolate Pudding?: A Story For Little Kids About Divorce
Was It the Chocolate Pudding?: A Story For Little Kids About Divorce
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Sandra Levins, Bryan Langdo
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Product Details

  • Author: Sandra Levins, Bryan Langdo
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Dewey Decimal Number: 306.89
  • EAN: 9781591473091
  • ISBN: 1591473098
  • Label: American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Number of Items: 1
  • Number of Pages: 40
  • Product Group: Book
  • Publication Date: 2005-09
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Reading Level: Ages 4-8
  • Studio: American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Title: Was It the Chocolate Pudding?: A Story For Little Kids About Divorce
Avg Customer Rating: 4 stars

Product Description: "Was It the Chocolate Pudding?" tells the story of divorce in a typical family from the point of view of an engaging young narrator. Readers learn about divorce, and receive age-appropriate explanations of what is happening regarding such issues as single-parent homes and joint custody. But most importantly, the narrator explains that divorce is not the child's fault - it is a grown-up problem. The story emphasizes the need for communication between parent and child and includes a "Note to Parents" by psychologist and author Jane Annunziata, PsyD.


Customer Reviews


5 stars Great book
My daughter asks me to read this book every day. It helps her to cope and understand divorce. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.


5 stars The best book I've found for helping kids with divorce.
When my ex and I were going through a divorce I tried looking through many books to help our kids cope. I found almost all of them to be heavily biased towards either the mother or the father, portraying one as dysfunctional or unavailable.

Since my kids had both a mother and a father who cared about then, I wanted to avoid causing more emotional damage to them by giving them a book which might make them worry that one or the other of us was going to abandon them or start drinking heavily. This book is designed to help kids understand that divorce is not their fault, that they didn't cause it and can't prevent it. It helps them to understand that the situation is not ideal, but that it will work out. I think it helps them to feel more "normal." And it doesn't portray one side as being substantially better parent than the other.

It does have the kids spending more time during the week with the father than the mother. But the time that the kids are with their mother they are happy to be there and doing fun activities, and she offers them important parental advice. I really don't believe that there is a bias one way or the other in this book.

Did the kids enjoy it? Now that our kids have pretty well adjusted to the divorce, two years later they still ask to have it read to them from time to time. I highly recommend this book along with Claire Masurel's "Two Homes" for any parents who desire above all to help their children cope with the anxiety of a divorce.


5 stars Excellent book
This is an excellent book for young kids on divorce. My daughter is 5 years old and she enjoyed it very much. It also gets the message across that kids are not to blame for divorce. I would recommend it for kids under 6. I believe it would be too simplistic for older kids.


1 stars G Auxier
I found this book to be just too wordy. The concept was good, children do blame themselves for divorce and look for reasons why they caused divorce but this book is more for adults to understand how children come to those conclusions rather than something that would help a child understand. I felt that it was condescending and not at all believable in terms of what a child would say.


3 stars Was it the Chocolate Pudding? A story for Little Kids About Divorce
I found this book to be directed towards a divorce situation where
the kids primarily spend time with the father. This would be a perfect
book for that custody agreement. I was surprised that the mother was
only mentioned toward the end of the book, and a slight attempt to show
the mother is in the childrens life daily. I returned it and ended up
losing money due to shipping.