You Hold Me and I'll Hold You

by Jo Carson

Book Overview

When a small girl hears her father's aunt has died and they must drive to Tennessee for the funeral, she worries about how different it will be from her backyard service for their hamster. It's so... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531058956
• ISBN13: 9780531058954
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Gentle book about death and grieving

This book is a quiet, simple way to talk about death with children without scaring them. The little girl has already dealt with major traumas in her life-- her mother walked out on their family, her hamster died-- and so when her great-aunt dies, she is prepared to experience a new aspect of grieving. She sees her father and her older relatives wracked with grief and she reaches out with new understanding. As a class read-aloud, it offers lots of children access with the side story of her hamster's death, allowing a discussion of grief and love and support to emerge easily. The absence of the mother in the story also allows other kinds of grieving and separation to be acknowledged.