The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye

Not since The 10th Good Thing About Barney or Ill Always Love You has there been such a peaceful and inspiring book to help children and adults cope with the loss of a pet. The talented multiple-medalist Jane Yolen takes on this difficult subject with her usual grace and poetic sensitivity focusing not on the death as much as the life in the last day of an older cat named Tiger Rose. Tiger Roses kitten days are long gone and shes grown too tired to stay so she says her goodbyes to all the creatures and the joys of her natural worldfrom the scolding blue jay to the dog and children she shares her home with to a chipmunk startled by her gentleness to her favorite shady patch under a piney bush. In a final vision Tiger Rose takes one last leap into the blue sky and becomes one with allthe earth the air the sun. . . . This is perhaps the most reassuring book on death available for children.