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Book details
  • Genre:CHILDREN'S FICTION
  • SubGenre:Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings
  • Age Range (years):0 - 12
  • Language:English
  • Pages:72
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798350923124

Death and Dragons

A Conversation for Children of All Ages

by Nathan Allen Reinert

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Overview
Death, loss, worry, fear. These are guaranteed aspects that accompany the human experience. Children, especially, are full of questions about these difficult and universal topics. There are perhaps no final answers. And yet, the children ask the questions. And so do we. Death and Dragons is truly 'a Conversation for Children of All Ages.' It is presented simply enough for a child and profoundly enough to speak to the child in all of us. The book addresses many of the questions a young mind may raise in regard to life and death. An illustrated dialogue between an unnamed child-like main character and an 'offscreen' adult figure uses the death of the main character's grandmother as a springboard in a manner that is thoughtful, touching, and open-ended. Death and Dragons seeks not to deliver answers but rather to help foster these conversations about the things we fear which all too often remain silent. Death and Dragons provides a listening ear and a loving arm of support amidst the struggle of the unknown and the navigation of grief for our inner and outer children. We are not alone here. We are loved. We face the dragons together.
Description
Talking about death to a child is hard. Hard because there are no answers that stand up to the endless stream of 'why' that the holy, young, curious mind continues to bring. Hard because we were once like that and maybe never got sufficient answers to our questions. Hard because there are no final answers to the great questions in life. Death, loss, worry, fear: they visit us all. Our inability to talk about and to work through them as individuals and as a collective human family creates additional, unnecessary suffering. The "answer" we need is the conversation about these topics: realizing that we all experience them. Death and Dragons is truly 'a Conversation for Children of All Ages.' It is presented simply enough for a child and profoundly enough to speak to the child in all of us. The book addresses many of the questions the young mind raises in regard to life and death through an illustrated dialogue between an unnamed child-like main character and an 'offscreen' adult figure. It uses the death of the main character's grandmother as a springboard in a manner that is thoughtful, touching, and open-ended. Death and Dragons seeks not to deliver answers but rather to help foster these conversations about the things we fear which all too often remain silent. Death and Dragons provides a listening ear and a loving arm of support amidst the struggle of the unknown and the navigation of grief for our inner and outer children. We are not alone here. We are loved. We face the dragons together.
About the author
Nathan was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and currently resides in Riverside, California where he plays music, reads, writes and pets as many animals as possible.