You'll Find Me - Hardcover

Hill, Amanda R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433831260 ISBN 13: 9781433831263

Publisher: Magination Press ® ― American Psychological Association, 2024

Synopsis

A Tender Story About Grief, Healing, and Honoring Special Memories

This lyrical picture book offers a comforting way to talk about loss with children, encouraging them to find peace, understanding, and connection even when someone they love is no longer physically present. Through warm, reflective narration, this book gently guides young readers toward recognizing that memories can hold meaning, closeness, and hope.

Thoughtful scenes invite children to acknowledge the empty spaces left behind while exploring heartfelt ways to remember family members, friends, pets, and others who are absent. The story helps kids see that love continues in the moments they carry forward, and that remembrance can be a source of comfort as they process grief and healing.

Key Features

• Supports Emotional Understanding: Helps children recognize and talk about feelings related to grief, absence, and remembrance.
• Encourages Healthy Coping: Offers simple, nurturing ideas for honoring memories and creating new moments infused with love and connection.
• Ideal for Read-Aloud and Discussion: Gentle language and expressive scenes make this a supportive choice for families, classrooms, and counseling settings.
• Social-Emotional Learning Focus: Opens the door to meaningful conversations about empathy, healing, reflection, and celebrating the people or pets we miss.
• Trusted Publisher: From Magination Press, the children's imprint of the American Psychological Association, experts in child development and emotional well-being.

About this title

About the Author

Joanne Lew-Vriethoff is the acclaimed illustrator of many children's books. She loves quotes, reading, painting, and taking random photos of street art. Joanne lives between Amsterdam and Malaysia.

Reviews

PreS-Gr 2-At a time when many kids are facing the loss of a loved one due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this title offers a reassuring take on the topic. In poetic text, an unnamed narrator describes different ways that people we love remain with us after they die. "I will not always be greeting the morning with you. But you'll find me in the soft sounds of slippered feet." The concepts in this title are a little abstract, and will likely need to be unpacked for listeners with a discussion during reading or afterward. Reflecting the gentle tone of the book, the illustrations are soft and warm and are primarily in pastel colors. These show kids with a range skin tones engaging in various activities-playing the piano, picking flowers, reading, sitting at a beach, sledding. In most of the pictures, the kids are smiling as they appear to be remembering their lost loved one, creating a hopeful vibe. VERDICT Although this title doesn't break any new ground, it is appropriate to give to kids dealing with grief and loss. Recommended for larger collections.-Melanie Kletter, School Library Journalα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Magination Press ® ― American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433831260
• ISBN 13: 9781433831263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Lew-Vriethoff Joanne
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32