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The Perfect Shelter

Clare Helen Welsh author Asa Gilland illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little Tiger Press Group

Published:13th May '21

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Today is the perfect day to build a shelter, and be together. A powerfully told story from Clare Helen Welsh and Åsa Gilland that explores the emotions we feel when someone we love is battling a serious illness.

Today is the perfect day to build a shelter, and be together.

A powerfully told story from Clare Helen Welsh and Åsa Gilland that explores the emotions we feel when someone we love is battling a serious illness.



A powerfully told story from Clare Helen Welsh and Åsa Gilland that explores the emotions we feel when someone we love is battling a serious illness. At first, nobody knew. It seemed as if today would be like yesterday forever, the perfect day to build a shelter in the woods. Then, my sister changed - she was more tired than before. More quiet. When we learn that she is sick, really sick, it feels as though a storm has engulfed our whole family. But, we will ride out this storm. And though today may be different from yesterday, today is the perfect day to build a shelter, together. A heartwarming book that sensitively tackles the tough subject of illness with authentic and empathetic tenderness. Much like Michael Rosen's Sad Book, A Shelter for Sadness or The Building Boy, The Perfect Shelter offers children a way to understand and articulate complex, often overwhelming, emoti

There is heartbreak and resolution in The Perfect Shelter [...] in which two sisters create a blissful den in the woods. When one sister gets ill, the other feels sad, angry, sometimes overwhelmed - but eventually they make another perfect shelter somewhere new in this hope-filled book. -- Imogen Russell Williams * Guardian *

ISBN: 9781788815796

Dimensions: 280mm x 245mm x 4mm

Weight: unknown

32 pages