A Very Touching Book--For Little People and for Big People--

by Jan Hindman

Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 7/1/1983Pages: 52 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961103418
• ISBN13: 9780961103415
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: J. Hindman
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book may be too much for children under 5 years of age, however, it does a great job of explaining the difference between a 'bad' touch and a 'secret' touch. Most books of this nature do not address this difference. My children & I liked the illustrations as they helped set the tone for the content in a way that young children could understand. This book was recommended to me by the Denver Children's Hospital Behavioral Sciences/Sex Abuse Specialty Dept. and I recommend it to all parents/persons in a position of trust seeking help explaining this matter to young children.

Purple Faces Delight and Bring Parents & Children Together

Jan Hindman brings her vast knowledge of child sexual assault, offender profiles and wonderful humor together in this fine and funny book. My children and I would read four or five pages per night, before bed and talk about the book's content and lessons. Yes, grownups do get purple faces talking about this stuff and kids can help them through it. The very important definitions of good, bad and secret touching are taught sensitively and well. Secret touching must be the emphasis when seeking disclosures of child sexual assault and molestation. My kids especially liked the fingerprints at the page corners. Children, of course, get to decide when to turn the pages! Important to every family's library and every school library should have several copies.

No better books besides her other ones! Incredible!

Ths book is a wonderful guide to teaching children about their bodies. One that will get through to them without scaring them. Author is obviously very knowledgable about the topic. What a way to teach a child. Excellent books! Buy them and read and teach them to your kids!

A Child Sexual Abuse Prevention book that doesn't abuse!

This is clearly the best book to date for teaching children about the importance of avoiding inappropriate touch. Jan Hindman shows tremendous insight into the complicated and confusing world of child sexual abuse. Based on taking pride in their most precious possession, their body, this book helps children to respect and love themselves, rather than feel shame and fear regarding their bodies. This is a book to be read by adults and children TOGETHER. I strongly recommend that the "purple-faced" adults reading the book with the children carefully consider the introduction to the book BEFORE introducing it to children. THIS IS A "MUST HAVE" BOOK FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Gentle,fun approach to difficult subject of kids & touch

Wonderfully sensitive kids eye view of different kinds of touch...what feels good, what doesn't. Talks about bodies, private parts, and the problem with secrets. Good for ages 4 and up. Good for kids who have been molested as well as those who haven't. Encourages having a trusted adult to talk to. Helps with understanding when a touch is okay and when its not. Doesn't use scare tactics. Doesn't pathologize touch. Excellent. We need more books like this