“The night before Joslyn started Kindergarten we read the book,” she said. Her daughter Joslyn was born in 2005, and Melissa kept that promise. “ The Kissing Hand was a book I read in a Children’s Literature course in college, and I promised myself that when I had children, I would read this book the night before their first day of school,” she told SheKnows. It was after my experience with my own daughter going off to kindergarten that I developed the story as a book.For Melissa, the recommendation isn’t just professional it’s personal. I stumbled on the idea for The Kissing Hand after an encounter in a local park with an unusually large mother raccoon and her newborn cub. It has been used extensively in elementary schools, hospice, and by the U.S. The Kissing Hand, an internationally renowned children’s book, addresses separation anxiety and is a great resource at the beginning of the school year, or in any situation where a child must separate from parents. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary. School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. I hope that every parent would use the opportunity these books present to talk to their child and help them to find an approach that best fits their particular situation.
For the sake of the young audience, they do not offer complicated or multiple solutions for any particular issue. They offer a starting point for a discussion between the child and parent. And they are more than good picture books. I never intended for The Kissing Hand to become a series, but spending time with children continues to give me more to write about.
Raccoon shares her wisdom and love with little Chester. Each of the books in the Kissing Hand Series is a heart-warming and wonderfully illustrated story in which Mrs.
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