num_pages: 32
description: How can we answer the many questions young children have about death? Looking for a meaningful way to explain to neighbourhood children the death of a five year old friend, Doris Stickney adapted the graceful fable about the waterbug that changed into a dragonfly. First published under the title "Death" in 'Colloquy' (December 1971), the story was revised and expanded in 1982 to become the current bestselling Waterbugs and Dragonflies.  This edition features full-colour paintings by Gloria Ortiz Hernandez, an artist whose work has been exhibited in Europe, South America, and the USA. A native of Columbia, she currently lives and creates her work on a farm in Pennsylvania.
language: English
title: Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children
titlecomplete: Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children
genres: Childrens, Parenting, Science, Christianity, Picture Books, Death, Church, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 333
publisher: Continuum