Talking to kids about suicide. I’m a children’s-book author, so it is my job to ... s scrupulously well-concealed battle with severe depression. We also worried about making things worse.

The Great Depression had plunged ... illustrated books were among the most beloved. Illiterate adults relied on their literate children to help decipher them. Ethel Perryman supervised women's ...

College football and NFL stadiums were still full, kids went to school ... the lengthy period now known as the Great Depression. As Melloan puts it in the book's introduction, "When Washington ...

Doctors are now prescribing books to patients with depression, hoping that reading ... In many cases, bibliotherapy is used with children during tough times. Many might remember books for kids ...

The Depression-era work of all three writers is, alas, orphaned (out of print but still under copyright, and thus not viewable on Project Gutenberg or Google Books). It seems a shame, doesn't it?

The Great Depression: A Diary, is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Benjamin Roth, a lawyer, kept a detailed diary from the early 1930s through World War II, observing in detail ...