Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.
The title specifies two questions much on the minds of children and their parents these days. Girard’s answers are nonscary, specific, and practical; they form a very useful basis on which parents can address the topic with their children comfortably…Illustrated with low-key charcoal drawings that carry a good deal of substance in their nuance and expressions, this is perhaps the best treatment of the subject presently available for young children.
This consists of sensible advice, given with simple specifics, for coping with the advances of strangers; it warns against such traditional approaches as being told that a parent is ill, or has asked that the child be given a ride home. Blue-tinted line drawings are realistic, echoing one of the primary tenets of the book: always get help or seek a haven with adults as fast as possible if a stranger makes overtures.
