Waterbugs and Dragonflies is a graceful fable written by Doris Stickney who sought a meaningful way to explain to neighborhood children the death of a five-year-old friend. The small book is beautifully illustrtated by artist Gloria Ortiz Hernandez.
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A perfect reading for a memorial service, even for adults!,
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This review is from: Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children (Hardcover)
A young woman read this short children's book at our hospice memorial service. This event brought together people of all ages and from a variety of religious traditions. Such a gathering requires a selection of materials that will speak to many, while offending no one. The author's gentle story speaks to the profoundness of the death experience in a way that leaves the reader or listener joyful. This joy is a great gift for those who have experienced loss. I highly recommend that each household, even each elementary school, keep a copy on hand. It can serve as a deeply appropriate focus for any kind of memorial gathering, or for classroom reading to children when a loss has occurred.
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This review is from: Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Children (Looking Up) (Paperback)
my husband and i were told this story while we were in the hospital after our daughter was stillborn. i loved how this story talked about life after death but didnt talk about heaven, jusst a "better place." it also talked about why people that die cant come back. this is a pocket book, small and paperback. i am getting a tattoo of a dragonfly above my heart in memory of my daughter because of this story. i'm glad i found it in book form. i bought 3. one for each set of grandparents and one for us to keep.
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This little tiny book is a wonderful tale for small children about the difficulty of knowing what lies beyond the grave. In the most delicate and gentle way, the authors use the metaphor of the dragonfly larva, who live below the surface of the water, and the adult dragonflies, to illustrate the notion of someone going beyond our sight, to a marvelous place. They can't return to tell us about it. we just have to wait our turn. The authors' notes help to provide a spiritual context for talking to a young child about the death of someone close. I am an Episcopalian, and found the language and theology very congruent with our tradition.
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- Good Grief: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death With Under Elevens and Adults : A Holistic Approach by Barbara Ward on page 35, page 43, and Back Matter
- Interventions With Bereaved Children by Susan C Smith on page 120, and page 230
- Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Children: Healing Reading by Eileen Jones on page 63, and Back Matter
- Children, Bereavement and Trauma by Paul Barnard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Traveling through Grief: Learning to Live Again after the Death of a Loved One by Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge on page 155, and Back Matter
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