New Releases by Jane Chapman

Little Mouse feels scared when he lies in bed. What is that huffing and puffing? Is it a ghost? Little Mouse asks if he can come into Big Mouse''s bed. But Big Mouse is determined that Little Mouse should sleep alone.

Mama Hen goes in search of her lost egg, looking in the dog''s kennel, the cat''s bed and the donkey''s straw. Under every flap, there is a little egg, but none of them are Mama Hen''s. But, just as she''s given up and started to cry, she comes across her hatched chick.

Wanneer een hondje haar knuffel kwijtraakt, merkt ze dat ze best zonder kan en dat levende vrienden nog prettiger zijn. Prentenboek met paginagrote waterverfillustraties in kleur. Vanaf ca. 3 jaar.

Pickle the Penguin and his friend Peter the Polar Bear are both given a surprise present. 2-5 yrs.

"Family members have been observed to cope with the losses inherent in terminal illness by grieving. Little is known, however, about the factors which influence their grieving before the death of a significant other. This paper describes an exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational study designed to examine the relationships among general coping style, hope, and anticipatory grief in a convenience sample of 61 family members of individuals with terminal cancer. The organizing framework for this study was based on grief theory, Lazarus and Folkman''s (1984) theory of stress and coping, and Davies, Reimer, and Martens'' (1990) transition framework. Data were collected by a four-part questionnaire comprising the Jalowiec Coping Scale (Jalowiec, 1987), the Herth Hope Index (Herth, 1991), the Non-Death Version of the Grief Experience Inventory (Sanders, Mauger, & Strong, 1985), and a background information sheet developed by the researcher. Findings revealed that family members experienced individual anticipatory grief patterns. Women experienced more despair and anger/hostility than men. Adult children, more highly educated family members, individuals not living with the ill person, and non-primary caregivers expressed more anger/hostility. Multiple regression results showed that emotive coping and hope accounted for significant proportions of the variance in despair, somatization, and loss of control. Emotive coping contributed significant variation in anger/hostility, whereas lack of hope accounted for a significant amount of the variation in social isolation. Neither the general coping styles nor hope significantly predicted death anxiety. Suggestions for research and nursing were indicated." --

The Carter and Fulcher families came to America from England. William Carter was baptized 24 January 1770 in Folkestone, England. He married Sarah Harrold on 24 Mar 1798. Henry Harrold Carter who was third generation Carter was the grandfather of Harriet Elizabeth Carter Chapman of Biloxi, Mississippi. The author, Jane Elizabeth Chapman Whitt was born 4 Mar 1923 in Biloxi, Ms. and married Samuel Sullivan Whitt on 6 Feb. 1942.