I am a psychologist and have used this book on more than one occasion in my office. Its offbeat enough and funny enough to allow for broad application with children. Children often find themselves feeling different and reacting negatively to that. This is a great way to open conversation about feelings with children. I, too, wish this book would be published again!
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This is a delightful, enjoyable book for any young child. I enjoy reading it to my two girls, ages 9 and 5. It is especially valuable for anyone with an unusual family configuration of any sort. Else-Marie has seven little daddies (they are identical, much smaller than Else-Marie, and very straight-laced, 1950s, brief-case carrying, suit-wearing dads!). She is very worried when her mother mentions that she cannot pick...
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Sometimes a picture book is so bizarre, so entirely out of left-field, and so wacked-out mesmerizingly baffling that the average adult reader has no choice but to fall head over heels in love with it. Such, I tell you, is the case with, "Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies". I stumbled across this book entirely by chance. My library has a rather overwhelming amount of picture books and many of these end up in a kind...
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