There are flowers that bloom and flowers that fall;
Where there is light, there is darkness.
Explaining Death to Children
From that day on,
I can no longer wait by the window for my father to get off work.
Dad never came back with Eggettes.
Dad...will never come back.
When the little zebra saw the little tiger, he shouted:
"Why aren't you going to school? And you haven't done your homework?"
The little tiger often fails to do his homework, and the crocodile teacher always scolds him:
"You want to piss me off to death, don't you?!"
The little tiger felt uncomfortable and scared...
Is it because of this that my father
Will you be so angry that you die?
Awards and recommendations
"In the process of growing up, the death of a loved one is a stage that everyone must go through. Sometimes it comes suddenly and catches people off guard. So every time a loved one dies, we don't know how to tell our children, and our emotions with our children cannot be properly expressed." Story Reading Class
How to explain death? Everyone can have a different interpretation. This is Mao Shan's interpretation, "Death is part of returning to the world. My family has also explained it this way since I was a child. The body will nourish the world and become fertilizer. Returning to become a tree or a blade of grass is a good thing." As described in the book, "Everyone's life, coming to this earth is like a journey... There will be a destination, there will be flowers blooming, there will be flowers falling; there will be light, and there will be darkness."
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Author/Illustrator
Cat Shan
The author and illustrator of hand-drawn maps and children's books. Graduated with a master's degree in children's literature from Cambridge University in the UK, he currently lives in Hong Kong. He often swims and paints in the waves along the coast or under the big tree outside the bookstore.