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Resources for Children & Families Impacted by Incarceration

This list was created by children's librarians with The Seattle Public Library. (Updated June 2023)

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21 items

  • Knock Knock

    My Dad's Dream for Me

    Beaty, Daniel
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — E BEATY
  • Far Apart, Close in Heart

    Being a Family When a Loved One Is Incarcerated

    Birtha, Becky, 1948-
    BookChicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2017. — J362.8295 B5396F 2017
  • BookHong Kong : Michael Neugebauer Publishing, 2018. — E BOURDIE
  • BookHonesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, Inc., 2004. — E BRISSON
  • BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2022] — E GREENWOOD
  • The Night Dad Went to Jail

    What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail

    Higgins, Melissa, 1953-
    BookMankato, MN : Picture Window Books, 2012. — J362.8295 H5356N 2012
  • BookChicago, IL : Haymarket Books, [2019] — J362.8295 K111M 2019
  • BookChicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022. — E KABA
  • BookMarina del Rey, Calif. : DeVorss Publications, [2000] — E KARST
  • BookNew York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2018] — J MALDONA
  • BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — J MARKS
  • Dear Dad

    Growing Up With a Parent in Prison--and How We Stayed Connected : a Graphic Memoir

    Patton, Jay Jay
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic ; [New York, New York] : Kaepernick Publishing, 2024. — J-GN 362.8295 P2785P 2024
  • Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

    the Story of Amber and Essie Told Here in Poems and Pictures / by Vera B. Williams

    Williams, Vera B.
    BookNew York : Greenwillow Books, 2001. — J WILLIAM
  • DVDLincoln, NB : GPN Educational Media, 2004. — DVD J362.8295 V8258 2004