NOW AVAILABLE · AGES 5–9

The Backpack With Room for Love

A Faith-Based Story About Divorce

Paperback ISBN: 9798177533209

By Minnie Warren

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Some feelings are too big to fit in a backpack.

Nora’s blue backpack holds pajamas, a library book, and her favorite stuffed rabbit, Button. But when her parents divorce, Nora has questions she doesn’t know how to carry.

Through honest conversations, small prayers, and caring grown-ups, Nora learns that the divorce is not her fault—and it is not her job to fix it. She can love both parents, ask for comfort, and feel happy and sad on the same day.

This 24-page illustrated Christian story for ages 5–9 includes seven colorful illustrations, a prayer for changing days, conversation starters, and guidance for caring adults.

For families and caring adults

The Backpack With Room for Love gives children a gentle way to talk about divorce and moving between homes. Nora’s experience makes room for sadness, questions, comfort, prayer, and the reassurance that a child does not have to fix an adult decision.

The story is designed for ages 5–9 and for parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers, and faith communities who want an age-appropriate starting point for conversation. The included prayer and conversation starters can help adults listen without pressuring a child to choose sides or hide complicated feelings.

More about the story

The book deliberately avoids promising that divorced parents will reunite. Instead, Nora learns that she can miss one parent while enjoying time with the other, ask trusted adults for comfort, and hold more than one feeling at the same time. The caregiver guidance reinforces that children should not carry adult messages, fix a marriage, choose sides, or keep unsafe secrets. Prayer is presented as a place for honest questions and comfort rather than as a guarantee that family circumstances will return to what they were before.