Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children

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Mostly, of course, they get better again, but there are times when they are so badly hurt or they are so ill that they die because they can no longer stay alive. Throughout the book, the lifetime is explained as a beginning and an end, with living in the middle; it is established several times that this is true of all living things. I feel that this book is really the most beautiful and sensitive way to explain life and death to a child.

What is great about this book and something I didn't realize at the time was that lifetimes didn't have to only related to death of people. I used this book this week in my Kindergarten classroom to help them understand the loss of their classmate. Some of the line drawings (a dead bug, for instance) seemed a little strange - I mean, I guess that's the point, here's a bug that's alive, here's one that isn't, but still felt a little weird to me.He did, however, manage to listen until the end, and I think he absorbed the message it had to give. I don't think it's the only book that you will want, and there are others that better explain the emotions of grief. He has written and/or illustrated more than 100 books including versions of The Wind in the Willows, The Jungle Book, A Christmas Carol, and Treasure Island.

This book didn't focus on sadness or fear, rather it focused on how normal this process is and how every living thing will experience death at some point. For the last thirty-five years she has been providing information and guidance to humans and their animal companions through the use of telepathic communication, Reiki healing, Mer-Ka-Ba healing, and shamanic techniques. The words and illustrations peacefully showed how birth, living, and death are the natural process of life.The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. It reads more like nonfiction, and it could be a good place to help start explaining death to little ones, especially if the child is very interested in facts or nonfiction.

Later we could talk about our hopes and fears, but during the book we felt the calm rythm of the mystery of life.It explains the cyclic nature of life and death for animals, plants and people in a matter of fact, beautiful and poignant way. But we are all going to die, every one of us, and this book can help to understand that without fairy tales or hysteria. Using examples from nature (like ants, crabs, trees, butterflies, kookaburras and rabbits) this book explains that all living things are born, live for a lifetime, and die. Lifetimes ~ A Beautiful Way to Explain Life and Death to Children is a book I have read and used many times with children. This Goodreads listing is the one that uses the correct title (Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children).