Discuss how literature can be used to heal and deal with childrens concerns.

As we know, each and every single person on earth, including children, may encounter with a lot of problems in their daily life such as illness, death, poverty and disasters. Although the children are too fragile and innocent, they still cant escape themsleves from facing those problems. They need to face the reality of life because life will never be that easy. Thus, adults need to guide them in managing their personal crisis to ensure that they will gain new insights and inspirations in solving their problems. One of the alternatives that can be used to help the children is by using bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy generally refers to the use of literature to help people cope with emotional problems, mental illness, or changes in their lives (Pardeck, 1994), or to produce affective change and promote personality growth and development (Lenkowsky, 1987; Adderholdt-Elliott & Eller, 1989). It means that, bibliotherapy is