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Maybe dying is like becoming a butterfly, written by Pimm van Hest ; illustrated by Lisa Brandenburg

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Maybe dying is like becoming a butterfly

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written by Pimm van Hest ; illustrated by Lisa Brandenburg

A philosophical conversation about death from the author of I Give You My Heart. "Are you going to die, Grandpa?" "Someday, sweetheart. But I hope not too soon." Their simple exchange covers a lot of philosophical ground. Grandpa allows that "no one really knows" what happens after death, but he tells Christopher that some people think of heaven ("a place without sadness or war"), others of rebirth ("each time, you get wiser"), and others of "nothing" ("the same as before you were born"). The pair discusses the whys of death ("dying is part of life"), birth ("to learn all sorts of things"), and feelings of fear or comfort about dying

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