This is without a single doubt the most amazing children book I’ve read about death. It was crazy good and very emotional it even get a tear to drop out of my eye, which I think it’s a first time a children book does it.

Loosing a love one as a kid is rough and sometimes a bit hard to understand and deal with. Having lost so many close one at a very young age (the worst being my godfather and godmother at the age of four) I totally get the struggle and it a subject that is important for me. How to talk about it?

Well this book does it perfectly. No stupid comforting thought, not trying to escape talking about it, not over dramatic either. Just talking about the hard fact that dying is a part of life, that we have no other choice to accept it and that we don’t really know what is on the other side, if there is even an other side. For sure, this one is about a grandpa dying so it’s, in my opinion, easier to talk about than a accident, or cancer in a young age or something «less natural» in the order of things we like to put in place.

Of course, it’s sad, but there is hope, there is light and it accomplish something truly great talking about this topic the way it does.

Here it the quotes that got my tear out, a metaphor that was new, I never hear it before, and I just find it to be beautiful and somewhat accurate. Not in a religious way, but more in the way that after we die, wherever we go, we stay «around» the people we love if they keep us in the heart or in their thoughts.

«Think of it this way. Today, you and I are like two fish swimming together in this lake. When I die, things will be different. I won’t be a fish anymore, but I’ll become something even better. I’ll be the water.»

Young or old, read this book!