Inspired by the School Library Journal cover controversy, I thought of how often in children's and young adult literature the extreme view of drinking is given. One drink leads to binge drinking and dangerous behaviour; all drinkers are bad, abusive, evil drunks; etc.
So I asked for suggestions of those books where an alcoholic (including recovering alcoholic) is portrayed as something other than the evil, abusive person. The two illustrative books being, The Higher Power of Lucky
Here is the list thus far:
Blessing's Bead
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Tempo Change
Up a Road Slowly
Rules of the Road
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Because of Winn Dixie
My grandmother recommended "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" to me when I was young as the book that best explained what life was like with her father (who died from alcoholism at 43 - I actually posted about him today!).