Goodbye, Mitch

By Ruth Waller-Brodeur and Ruth Wallace-Brodeur

A young boy describes how he feels when the family cat dies. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807529966
• ISBN13: 9780807529966
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

This book helped me a lot -- and I'm an adult!

I really love this book. It spoke to my heart years ago when we were forced to put OUR marmalade cat of 12 1/2 years to sleep (cancer). The author doesn't hand out platitudes, she deals with the young boy's questions without trying give pat answers to them, and he comes to a place of peace and gratitude about having had such a wonderful cat. She doesn't try to console him by saying that his beloved pet is now feeding the flowers and trees, or something equally inane and depressing. It's beautifully expressed: sad, yes -- but so is the death of our beloved pets. I thought it was real, and thus, very respectful of the loss children and all humans experience when such a precious member of one's family dies.