Maybe Tomorrow? (a story about loss, healing, and friendship)
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A heartwarming story about loss, healing, and how to be a friend during hard times.
This tender exploration of loss illuminates the sustaining power of kindness, empathy, and friendship. It will resonate with anyone who has experienced hardship or grief, from the death of a loved one or a pet, to the transition to a new home, family situation, or learning environment. It is especially comforting during this time of social distancing and the uncertainty around what the future holds, sensitively demonstrating that we are stronger together.
"[Offers] hope that the world can be beautiful place...an excellent purchase." --School Library Journal
"Demonstrate[s] the power of patience, listening, and simply showing up." --Kirkus Reviews
Elba has a big block. She's been dragging it around for a long time.
Norris dances everywhere he goes, even uphill. He is always surrounded by a happy cloud of butterflies.
Can Norris and his butterflies help ease Elba's sadness and convince her to join them on a trip to the ocean?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Norris the alligator is optimism personified: he's so upbeat that a cloud of fluttering butterflies surrounds him wherever he goes. Elba, a pink hippo, couldn't be more different: she spends her days sitting on a big black block. ("Is it fun?" asks Norris. "Not really. No," Elba replies.) With Norris's gentle prodding and willingness to befriend her as she is, Elba reveals that she is mourning the loss of her dear friend, Little Bird ("She taught me to sing. We were hardly ever apart"), and the box gradually shrinks not disappearing altogether, but growing small enough for Elba to move through the world again, in the company of her new friend. Agell doesn't make the friendship a teachable moment for irrepressible Norris. He seems to instinctively know how to help his new pal without encroaching on her emotional boundaries; his patient demeanor and her quiet emergence become the story's narrative. Ramirez's sunny digitized watercolors echo this hopeful mood with a lightness and energy. Ages 4 8. Author's)
