This week’s Bashful Book Bee’s “BEELOVED” Book of the week is picked as a memorial to my brother.  Our book of the week is Rabbityness by Jo Empson.  This book is being recommended by several book review sources as a great book for helping children deal with death…. But after sharing it with 28 classes, only 2 children thought our star rabbit of the story had died.  We used this book as a creative way to think of all the places our rabbit could have gone.  The book is full of color, fun, joy, and inspiration.  For many who knew my brother, they know he was always about fun. I hope you will get this book for your classrooms or libraries…. It is a must read…

 

My other books are recommendations that also bring me memories of my brother.

1.    Williams Doll by Charlotte Zolotow is a story about a little boy who wanted a doll. While the boy’s father kept trying to interest him in “boy” toys…footballs or trains, the story shows how boys who have dolls learn to love their babies. As a boy with three sisters my brother had a doll and, while he grew up to be a “manly man”, he was a great daddy.

2.    Go Dog Go by Dr. Seuss was a book that only our family knows the fun memory’s associated with my brother’s library book “Go Dog Go”.  Readers can never go wrong with Dr. Seuss

3.    Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson is the best series for youngsters who have a love of ranch life.  My brother always loved being on the ranch.

4.    Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Scott Nash would be a great book my brother would have loved.  The Dinosaur group gets together every Sat. night for a great time of fun and dancing… and oh how my brother loved to dance….

 

“Dance as though no one is watching you, Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no one can hear you, Live as though heaven is on earth.” …Souza