Charlie, a young chimpanze, finds out how difficult life can be when asked to keep a secret. With the help of Panda, Charlie finds relief from his heavy burden. A must hear story for boys and girls ages 4-11.

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Related styles: Kids/Family: Children's Storytelling, Spoken Word: With Music

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Charlieâs Heavy Backpack â A metaphoric audio book for children, written by MaryAnn Kildebeck, LCSW, CCBH and Jodi Hassler, LPC, RPT, CCH.

This story is about Charlie, a happy chimpanzee, who lives in the jungle. He goes to school with his many friends and enjoys lots of fun activities. One day Charlie ended up with a very heavy backpack. This heavy backpack that Charlie carried with him where ever he went, made it difficult for Charlie to run, laugh and swing through the trees with his friends. Find out what made Charlie's backpack heavy and what he was brave enough to do about it.

Sometimes children need help â with large and small problems alike. Children can fall victim to bullies, adults who intend to harm them or adults who are well-intentioned but want a child to âallyâ with them against someone else.

Any of these situations plus many more can put a child in the position of having to keep a secret that burdens them with guilt or anger.

Our story, Charlieâs Heavy Backpack, is a metaphoric story for young children to help them make healthy decisions about keeping secrets.

The co-authors, MaryAnn Kildebeck and Jodi Hassler are clinical therapists who work with adults, families and children in private practice. Over the years they have both written therapeutic stories for their clientâs private use. Recently they have written and recorded stories and have made them available to the public. Each story is set to the beautiful music of Bill Webb.