The End of Something Wonderful

<DIV><DIV><B>With gentle humor and quirkiness this sympathetic book demonstrates how to say goodbye to a beloved pet and give it a proper sendoff.<BR /><BR /> &#147;[<I>The End of Something Wonderful</I> is] really good. It&#146;s funny and sardonic and it gets to be touching at the end.&#148; </B><I>&#151;Betsy Bird School Library Journal</I><BR /><BR /> Children love their pets very much&#151;and when the animals die that loss can be hard to process. <I>The End of Something Wonderful</I> helps kids handle their feelings when they&#146;re hurting and can&#146;t find all the right words. In a warm understanding sometimes funny way it guides children as they plan a backyard funeral to say goodbye from choosing a box and a burial spot to giving a eulogy and wiping away tears.<BR /><BR /> Most of all it reassures them that it&#146;s not the end of everything . . . and that <B><I>Something Wonderful can always happen again.</I></B></DIV></DIV>