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Home / Children's and teen / Children's picture books / Michael Rosens Sad Book

Michael Rosens Sad Book

£7.99

We all have ‘sad stuff’ to deal with in life. What makes Michael Rosen most sad is thinking about his son, Eddie, who died. In this book he writes about his sadness, how it affects him, and some of the things he does to try to cope with it.

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SKU: 9781406317848 Category: Children's picture books Tag: Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: death & bereavement
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Description

A heartbreakingly honest account of a father’s grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children’s Laureates.

Very occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a book that fits into no category at all. Michael Rosen’s Sad Book is such a book. It chronicles Michael’s grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19. A moving combination of sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable and perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain. It wasn’t made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text, ” I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling and it went straight down onto the page … Quentin didn’t illustrate it, he ‘realized’ it. He turned the text into a book and as a result showed me back to myself. No writer could ask and get more than that.” And Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael “being sad but trying to look happy” is the most difficult drawing he’s ever done… “a moving experience.”

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Weight 0.24 kg
Dimensions 29.2 × 21.8 × 0.8 cm
Author

Rosen, Michael

Publisher

WALKER BOOKS

Imprint

Walker Books Ltd

Cover

Paperback

Pages

40

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

155.937 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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