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Topics: emotional literacy, sadness, change, families, divorce

Fiction

Emily wants to be an artist. She likes painting and loves the way artists like Pablo Picasso mixed things up. Emily's life is a little mixed up right now. Her dad doesn't live at home anymore, and it feels like everything around her is changing. She is going through her 'blue period'. A book about a young child dealing with her parent's divorce.

Ages: 4 to 8 years.

Daly, Cathleen. Emily's blue period. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
ISBN: 9781596434691

The research asked trans individuals aged 14-25 and parents and guardians with a trans child aged 25 or younger living in Australia about their mental health and the barriers that they are facing accessing mental health and medical services.

A report on what Australian children from age 9 to 16 say about troubling content online. Children are exposed to cyberbully, pornographic content and violence online from a young age. This study was modelled on a similar report that was done across 25 European counties in 2013.