While the text may raise more questions than it answers, its tone is comforting and its myriad depictions of grief offer many entry points to which young readers may relate. Recommended for purchase where titles on loss are needed.
A worthy contribution. Pair with Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow’s Your Name Is a Song or Juana Martinez-Neal’s How Alma Got Her Name for a lesson or story time on the beauty and power of names and identity.
This clever tale should find a place in most collections, especially given the lack of Indigenous voices and representation in the beginning reader format.