Explaining addiction to young children is challenging. This addiction book for kids helps children comprehend a loved one's alcoholism or drug addiction recovery.

"No matter what Kate did, she could not stop."

Using pants as an approachable metaphor, a weary Kate describes how her new comfortable pants make her feel strong, confident, and like she could finally relax.

Kate loves how she feels in her new pants so much she keeps buying more . . . and more . . . and more. Her family is worried. And Kate knows she needs help.

In this kid's book about addiction, learn how:

• to talk about the disease of addiction with family.
• to understand the actions and behaviors of a loved one with addiction.
• time away from home in treatment can help people get healthy.

Author and illustrator Kate Hammer uses her experience as a mother and an alcoholic seeking treatment to help other families make their way through recovery. She acknowledges the sadness and frustration that children feel when their loved ones seek help for addiction, and she offers the shining hope that recovery and healing are possible.

With beautiful illustrations by the author, this book about addiction recovery gives young children both the language and the optimism they need when someone they love is struggling with addiction.

Kate Hammer is a full-time artist living gloriously in recovery from addiction in northern Minnesota with her husband and three children. She has a degree in art education and is the owner of Pretty Dirt Pottery, a small-batch pottery business. She also enjoys teaching pottery workshops and children's clay classes. When her hands are not in clay, Kate can be found watching her children play a variety of sports or finding pleasure in simple things like lemonade stands and the smell of freshly cut grass.