When I Miss You

Cornelia Maude Spelman. Albert Whitman & Company, $15.95 (24pp) ISBN 978-0-8075-8910-6

The latest entry in the Way I Feel Books series, When I Miss You by Cornelia Maude Spelman, illus. by Kathy Parkinson, aims to help reassure children with separation anxiety. ""When you go out, I miss you. I want to show you something, but I can't. I wish you were with me!"" Parkinson's illustrations star a pudgy, apprehensive rodent who eventually learns, ""When I miss you, I know you'll be back!""

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