num_pages: 48
description: This sensitively-told story for readers of all ages illustrates the inseparability of life and death. Rosy-cheeked and wrapped in blue with a flower in her hair Death rides a pink bike. Death a greeneyed little girl in this pastel world visits small animals with soft fur and big animals with sharp teeth. She lingers with a kindly grandmother as they knit one last scarf together. She wanders through surroundings of gentle beauty and she tells us who she is.For parents of children facing the loss of a family member a friend or a pet this book finds words to express what is often so difficult to explain. It ends with such a feeling of uplift and acceptance that readers of any age will turn the last page with a smile and a tear.Author Elisabeth Helland Larsen and illustrator Marine Schneider weave a tapestry out of direct poetic words and handdrawn pictures to give voice to emotions that are moving real and most of all honest.
language: English
title: Life and I: A Story About Death
publisher: Little Gestalten