This is the book I would want to be in the hands of my child if she were to experience the loss of someone she loved. It is a story of grief that manages to hold the complexity of the feelings of a child and her dad alongside the rawness of those emotions in a simple and perfect way. It is a beautiful book in so many aspects. The illustrations convey huge emotion, from the pictures of the adults at the funeral, to the illustrations of the child’s friends trying to be kind, to the black cloud of grief that hangs on her back and at times threatens to engulf her…