by Glenn Ringtved, Charlotte Pardi, Robert Moulthrop
I can't remember how I came to find out about today's book but I am certainly glad that I did. The book is Cry, Heart, But Never Break by Glenn Ringtved with illustrations by Charlotte Pardi. (It's translated from Dutch to English by Robert Moulthrop.) The premise is a simple one: Teaching children ...
The great appeal of this book begins with its title, which encapsulates all that is resilient about how we humans cope with the saddest of life's natural cycles: death. Written for children, the language and story is simple, but the emotions it arouses are not. Four years after my Dad died at the ri...