A Little Big Story About Sorrow
By Réka Király
The fifth instalment in A Little Big Story series is a sensitive and heartfelt book about a difficult topic - grief and death. The moving story about a dying fox is portrayed delicately and peacefully, which helps introduce, discuss and understand the concepts of death, loss, and grief to children in a gentle way.
The charming A Little Big Story picture book series, created by award-winning author and illustrator Réka Király, ponders the big questions of life in a fun and sweet way. It offers children and adults topics to think about together. Through different stories, young readers can explore common themes such as friendship, togetherness, and various emotions.
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"An extraordinarily sensitive and beautiful picture book, it subtly depicts the impending death and grief of losing a friend. How wonderful that books for children are made with such skill."
"Crying warning! It is a gentle, peaceful and sad story about a dying fox. Very warmly told exactly as it is when facing death. It moved me to tears."
"I can see the book being suitable for a child to read or to look at independently, or for the child to read on their own. The book has a lot of 'the right stuff' about a loved one's illness, deterioration, impending death, the time of death and the time after death. Practical situations and the emotions that usually arise from these situations. In other words, there are a lot of things that you and your child can wonder about together and reflect on in the family situation. A good help for both the adult and the child!”
