Sick with cancer, young David is comforted by visits from a shimmering blue bird named Victor, who prepares him for his eventual transformation into a new form. Reprint. SLJ. K.
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A mystical bird offers comfort to an 11-year-old boy suffering from cancer in this tender exploration of death and dying. Ages 9-12.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3 Up-- A gentle, compelling tale about an 11-year-old boy who is hospitalized with cancer. Looking up, Daniel sees three birds on his windowsill: one green, one blue, and one golden. The blue bird visits him every day, bringing him messages from the golden bird. " 'Watch the tree outside your window,' " Daniel is told. " 'It may look dead to you, but . . . if you look more closely, you'll see buds on it.' " Daniel dreams about his father who died four years earlier. When he wants to run to him, his father calls out, "Not yet, Daniel." The boy discusses his cancer with his mother and his nurses, and lovingly, but honestly, they help him face his death. The first-person narrative is filled with love and images that reflect the mystical nature of death. In his preoccupation with childbirth and the reflowering of the cherry tree, Daniel comes to see death as a transformation. Woven into the narrative are realistic hospital scenes: mother at the bedside knitting, nurses giving care, visitors talking with Daniel. This book, simply and beautifully written, provides a reassuring and realistic approach to discussing death and dying with children. It will be welcomed by all who must cope with the death of a terminally ill child. --Constance A. Mellon, Department of Library & Information Studies, East Carolina Univ . , Greenville, NC
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is a beautiful, slender book, with perfect illustrations, telling in the first person voice of a child his transition from life to death. I was going to list this book for sale, but will pass it around to friends instead, and hope to get it back. This is a title that will bring both comfort and tears to anyone facing the death of themselves or someone they love (all of us). I would share this book with even a quite young child, and with grown-ups of all ages as well. First published in the Netherlands and translated into English. Recommended by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
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