Bene Beaver is quite certain of the following: His Mom has the coolest job in the world! At dinnertime, his mother often talks about the latest construction of a beaver den, until one evening she is quiet at dinner and seems sad. Papa Bernhard explains that Mom has lost her job. “How can you lose something like that?” asks Bene, who goes to visit the wisest animal in the forest: the moose.

This book is designed to help children, whose parents are affected by unemployment, to better understand and master their situation. The story of Bene Beaver and his family addresses a number of the different challenges that occur when a parent is unemployed.

For:

• children of elementary school age (between 6 and 12 years of age)
whose parents are affected by unemployment
• parents, relatives
• therapists