Mother Bunny and the Bad Plants: a story of kinship care for small children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533404909)

Elise Bowditch has always been interested in how we grow up and make sense of our world. She's a mom, a grandmother and now, a great-grandmother. This book is based partly on her own experience of kinship care and on other grandparents' stories. She raised her great-grandson for a while after his mother was no longer able to care for him due to her drug abuse. In the process, she talked with other grandparents and found a need for book like this. Her work background is in software development, but she returned to grad school and earned a Ph.D. with a focus in youth and children's geography. She lives and works in Philadelphia, after spending two decades in the Pacific Northwest.