Promises

By Elizabeth Mahony Winthrop

At the opening of this moving and ultimately hopeful story, Sarah's mother is ill. During her treatment she seems to get sicker and sicker. She's often in the hospital, and at home she needs to rest.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395822726
• ISBN13: 9780395822722
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

exactly on target for kids 3-9

My 9-year old son brought this book home from school, saying he had found a book for people like me (going through breast cancer chemotherapy). I read it to my other kids (ages 7 and 3). They especially liked that Sarah got angry about her mother's illness. The book deals frankly with the ever-changing range of emotions that kids go through when their mom is sick. All three of my kids could identify with Sarah at one point or another in the book, and I could certainly identify with the mother! After reading it, both of my sons offered me THEIR baseball caps to add to my hat collection!

A must read for the children of all cancer patients

Promises is a wonderfully inspiring story of a young girl who is learning to cope with her mother's illness. This story is so incredibly well written, the reader can share in the young girls anguish as well as her triumph. This story is not only helpful to the children of cancer patients, it also sends a strong message to children not to make fun of someone just because they look different. This story made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made me realize just how trivial lifes little problems really are.