From award-winning author and illustrator, Wolf Erlbruch, comes one
of the world's best children's books about grief and loss. In a
curiously heart-warming and elegantly illustrated story, a duck
strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. Duck and Death play
together and discuss big questions. Death, dressed in a dressing
gown and slippers, is sympathetic and kind and will be duck's
companion until the end. "I'm cold," she said one evening. "Will
you warm me a little?" Snowflakes drifted down. Something had
happened. Death looked at the duck. She'd stopped breathing. She
lay quite still. Explaining the topic of death in a way that is
honest, lightly philosophical and with gentle humor, this
enchanting book has been translated into multiple languages,
adapted into an animated movie and short film and performed on
stages worldwide. Wolf Erlbruch received the Hans Christian
Andersen Medal in 2006 and was the winner of the Astrid Lindgren
Memorial Award in 2017. Tender and direct, this is an excellent
tool for helping to explain and talk about death, dying and
bereavement with children Loved by adults and children, parents and
grandparents, also suitable for schools, grief centers and
counsellors Praise for Duck, Death and the Tulip "The gold standard
of picture books about death is Duck, Death and the Tulip...It's
hard to describe how this extraordinarily tender book manages to be
both heartbreaking and comforting, but it does.--The New York Times
The most extraordinary picture book I've seen in many a year. A
duck becomes friends with Death, and it's the most natural thing in
the world. Trust me, adults get far more weirded out by this book
than children ever do. Amazing.--Patrick Ness, Time Out London The
most moving book I've read this year is the German picture book
Duck, Death and The Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch, about the strange,
uneasy friendship.--Meg Rosoff, The Financial Times "The German
children's book author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch offers a
wonderfully warm and assuring answer in Duck, Death and the Tulip -
a marvelous addition to the handful of intelligent and imaginative
children's books about death and loss."--Maria Popova,
Brainpickings "Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch is a
superb picture book from Germany, that tells a gentle story of the
relationship between Death and a duck. Death is portrayed as a
sympathetic figure in a dressing gown who is with us all the time,
but who only comes into Duck's consciousness towards the end of his
life. It is warm, poignant and witty."--Anthony Browne, The
Guardian
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