Laura Watkinson

Mar 26, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Laura Watkinson |Laura Hughes |Chloe Dominique

by Tiny Fisscher ; illustrated by Herma Starreveld ; translated by Laura Watkinson ‧Honest words and arresting characters model the essential elements for one of life’s most difficult conversations. A community of birds finds, mourns, and buries one of their own. Margaret Wise Brown’s The Dead Bird, illustrated by Remy Charlip in 1958 and then by Christian Robinson in a 2016 edition, portrayed children discussing death’s finality and enacting grown-up rituals over a deceased bird.