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“Mommy, What’s ‘Died’?” The Butterfly Story
By: Linda Gill

Available in two versions

These two unique books have been designed for children from pre-kindergarten through 4^th grade.  Each book contains the same heartwarming, sensitive, colorfully-illustrated story about death, grief, loss, and joyful memories.  The story traces Little Dave’s experiences following the death of his grandfather.  As he learns about the birth of a beautiful butterfly, Little Dave gains a new understanding about death and loss that is free from fear and worry.  Both books include discussion questions for each page of the story to encourage children to interact with a parent or other trusted adult about their perceptions and feelings.

The Children’s Storybook includes the full-color story with discussion questions only. It makes a wonderful gift for families with children who have experienced the death of a loved one.

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The Extended Version of the book is also full-color and is intended for professionals (counselors, social workers, teachers, child care workers, pastors, medical and nursing professionals) who would like a more in-depth resource.  It includes 40 additional pages of activities, story extensions, and cultural/belief variations to assist professionals as they support the grief processes of children from various cultural and religious backgrounds.  The Activities section can be used to help children explore their feelings.  The Extensions section provides examples of ways to adapt and extend the story for children from different cultural and religious backgrounds.  The Belief Variations section provides information to help professionals become more knowledgeable and sensitive to different beliefs, customs, and rituals related to death from different cultural and religious perspectives.

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If you are interested in purchasing both books together, click below:

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About “Joy in the Mourning”_®

“Joy in the Mourning”_® was founded by Linda Gill in 1996.  The purpose of “Joy in the Mourning”_® is to provide grief counseling services, support groups, and resources to assist individuals and families toward healing through the process of mourning their losses.  Losses are a part of life.  The aftermath of a significant loss, particularly a death, can affect personal relationships, sometimes disrupting them in unhealthy or painful ways.  Marriages and parent-child relationships can suffer.  Friendships can be affected.  Even an individual's professional life can be affected because of the mental and emotional exhaustion associated with normal grief.

The service mark, “Joy in the Mourning”_® was inspired by an ancient psalm which has been adapted to assert that “weeping may endure through the long night of sorrow, but joy will return in the mourning.”  The goal of “Joy in the Mourning”_® is to help people mourn in healthy ways that bring them back to the joy of life. 

The sun and clouds logo graphically represents the process of recovery from grief.  The sun is partially obscured by silver-lined clouds with golden rays of light breaking through them.  The clouds obscuring the sun represent the sadness of grief shrouding the joy of life.  The silver outlines of the clouds represent hope for the future.  The rays breaking through the clouds represent the way in which healthy mourning allows those who have experienced a loss to experience joy once again.