Water Bugs & Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children

A Hopeful Comfort for All Ages.
Though this book was written for children, I have sent it many times to remaining relatives of friends of all ages who have died. The transformation of the dragon flies is too complex for young children, but children over 8 can take comfort from the book if their questions are answered by an adult who would like to fill in their religious preference to explain the plot. This is thoughtfully and hopefully written.

Amazing
THis was a purchase of necessity when my girlfriend was suddenly killed, and her 3 year old, and ten month old were suddenly motherless and needed answers. This book provides a graceful and sensitive way of explaining death and the reuniting of families in the afterlife. I would recommend this highly to any one who finds themselves needing to cope with or explain death to anyone. Also "The Fall of Freddie the Leaf" is incredible. Just don't read these with out tissues.

This book was amazing for our whole family!
My 13 year-old nephew was shot to death and left behind 2 younger brothers, several young cousins, and a entire family asking, "Why?"

A friend recommended this book to me and I loved it so much I ordered several copies. His death was nearly 3 years ago, but we all still treasure our copies and hold this story close to our hearts. My daughter was 4 at the time, and it truly helped her grasp what death meant. It creates a picture of after-life without any strong religious connections.

My entire family treasures all things dragonfly after reading this book. My sister and I even have matching dragonfly tattoos with her son's initials. I recommend it for anyone of any age who needs assistance accepting the death of a loved one!

nice parable
This is a great book that explains death in a parable even a young child can understand. The waterbugs keep seeing their friends ascend up a plant and go out of he water, but can't understand why. One bug vows to come back and explain it all when it happens to him, but finds he is a dragonfly with wings and can't possibly return to the water. It is a grea way of explaining death as a positive transformation, in a manner that does't focus on any particular religion. This would be appropriate for people of all faiths and agnostics/ atheists.

It's a COLORING book
I was very surprised when this arrived, as it's a coloring book! By the description, I assumed it was the softback version of the original. Nowhere does it state in the description that it's a coloring book. Now that I look real close at the image of the cover on Amazon's listing page, I can barely read "coloring book", but I think this needs to be spelled out in the title of this book's listing.