The Un-Wedding by Babette Cole is a story about a pair of siblings that have parents that fight about everything. Their marriage is not only ruining the parents' lives but also the children begin to blame themselves. The decide to hold a meeting at their school for all the children with parents who do not get along. Sooo many children come that they decide that something needs to happen. Paula comes up with an idea and decides to un-marry the parents. The parents are so excited and after their un-marriage they go off to their own honeymoons. Then the children bulldoze the house and build two in its place: one for each parent. I think this is an interesting way to present divorce to a child. It shows that there are hardly any unpleasant emotions for the children involved and presents a happily-ever-after for the family. In real life, this is not always the case which could be upsetting for children who read this book. I wish it would have been a little bit more realistic since divorce is so common and so many children have to go through it.
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