A brilliant and beautifully illustrated little book about three children's morbid, flippant, and tender attitude toward death.

A very cute little book. A little morbid, which made it even funnier.

I love books from outside the United States. They rarely fail to remind me how our society tends to gloss over the ugly parts of life, when there is so much to gain from facing those ugly parts head on. Unfortunately, death is a frequently ignored, highly euphemized topic, but this brief story of a day of funeral play shines a light on a dark subject.

A group of friends finds a dead bee, which is just the beginning of a funeral business in which they bury several dead mice, a dead hare, a roadkill hedgehog, and a pet hamster. There is a moment that takes a potentially ominous turn, when they discuss burying ants alive (they'll die soon, anyway). But in the main, these friends conduct business with integrity, honoring each dead animal with poetry and tears. This lasts for the day, after which they find something new to do.

The illustrations are sweet and bright, and lend a cheerful atmosphere to the subject matter. Obviously, given the subject matter, it is important to know your reader before you suggest this one, but overall I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

My children thought this book was so funny and strange, in a good way

Seems so accurate to childhood grand ideas. The format and size will likely make it lost and not often checked out which is disappointing. I loved it :)

Quirky, fun and morose all at the same time. A good transitional book for a library.

This is an odd take on death and dying, probably because it is a Swedish translation.

This tells the story of some kids getting bored, and deciding to spend the day having funerals for all the animals they find. They baptise the ones they don't know the names for, so they have names on their crosses and then they say a few words.

They aren't really sad about it, because they don't know the animals, but they show them respect.





It is a little removed from the usual stories about death and dying in children's literature. There is no other emotion besides, here is something to do, although the youngest gets upset that this will happen to him one day.

And then the next day, they move on to something else.

Not sure if this is the best way to teach about death, but it certainly is different.

I found it a bit to odd for me.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Whimsically morbid, and somehow both charmingly quaint and strikingly modern at once.