Through the Mickle Woods

This is a story in the best tradition of fairy tales. It deals with hard issues of life in a form that allows one to absorb what one needs and can manage at any given time. Then you can return for more later. Not a book to be given to children to read alone, but a book to be shared. An adult can help a child find the meaning. The message of loss, and grief, and memory, and continuing to live can be absorbed by adults as well as children

There aren't too many picture books or stories for children that deal so well with the issues of grieving and healing and the questions about life after someone you love has died. This book gently tells, in story and fable, the healing words of how to carry on and what it is to live, and why we need to remember. Any parent or child old enough to understand death can take comfort and healing from this story. I wish I had a hundred copies of this to give to all of my friends who have lost someone. In the traditions of ANNIE AND THE OLD ONE, and THE TENTH GOOD THING ABOUT BARNEY this is another work that deals with death, life, and those who must deal with the questions that surround them.

I believe this book was incredibly well done. The story is great and the illustrations INCREDIBLE. Barry Moser did an incredible job with the illustrations. I really do recommend this book to everyone.