TITLE: Cat Heaven
AUTHOR: Cynthia Rylant both wrote and illustrated this book.
GENRE: Rhymes
THEMES: Pets, Creativity, Death
AWARDS: None
PUBLISHING
DATE AND COMPANY: Blue Sky Press, 1997
SUMMARY: This book helps to children to understand what happens when a cat passes away. While it is completely made up, I feel that it could really help a child that is grieving the loss of their pet. It discusses a cat treat filled heaven (my apartment must be heaven on earth, but that is a different story), and the cats are even aloud on the counter in cat heaven. I think that this would be a great book to use in a classroom after maybe a class pet passes away, because that can be traumatic. A great way to use it would be to read it to the kids, and then have them imagine what the class pet's heaven is like, even if it is a hamster! We can discuss where all the animals go to have fun after they pass on.
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