I Am Lucky to Have My Parents is a children's picture book about a young girl who is going through her parents' separation. As a Bulgarian bookseller I was already familiar with it (it's my go-to recommendation for books on divorce for that age group), which is why I was so excited to see that Papercutz translated it in English.

The book follows our young protagonist as she recounts the happy moments she has with both her parents, and how her mom and dad are not always happy with each other. It validates her feelings of sadness and anger at her parents' separation, and shows the young readers that even after such a stressful moments in their life there will be family, love, and happiness. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful and the text is also rendered well to the English by the translator, Borislava Pancheva (keeping the impact of such a short and simple text can be more challenging that it seems). A lot of divorce depicted in media is of the messy variety, which makes "I Am Lucky to Have My Parents" a great book to read to younger kids to model what a healthy parental divorce or separation might look like.

Every parent needs to be given this book. It was hands down, phenomenal! Just such a big topic and hard to explain to kids- but this book put it together so nicely! The illustrations were darling and the story was fantastic. Wonderfully done.

The first 80% of this book was gold. With my first children's book on divorce, I'd hit the jackpot.
Then it went from 0-100 (maybe more like 0-1000?) in the turn of a page.

For an older child, I <i>do</i> think this could prove to be a positive tool in processing divorce or a similar upheaval of the family life they're used to.

My concern is that unless parents/caretakers are diligent about keeping this out of younger children's hands a child introduced to this book too young could misunderstand, ending up in a thought spiral over what big changes the book has made it seem will occur soon after the parents' split. The more children's books I review the more I find myself stressing variations of the same point - younger kids take things SO literally.

{Thank you bunches to NetGalley, Radostina Nikolova and publisher for the eARC in exchange for my honest review!}

This was such a cute book about a really important topic that can be really difficult to talk to children about- separation and divorce. This book would be great for schools to help parents and children talk about what is happening and why.

What a cute book!!! This book is perfect for parents who struggle to have the conversation with their children about seperation and divorce. This book allows your child/children to understand big changes in their lives, and know it’s okay to talk about those feelings. With simple words and pictures.