The Perfect Shelter (Hardback)
Clare Helen Welsh (author), Asa Gilland (illustrator)- In stock
With warm, beautifully composed illustrations from Asa Gilland, Clare Helen Welsh’s sensitively handled picture book deals with the complicated emotions that surrounded a loved one’s diagnosis of cancer. A hugely valuable tool to help children understand serious illness and the ways it affects people, The Perfect Shelter tells a deeply affecting story with compassion and heart.
At first nobody knew. Then they told me my sister was sick.
But together we'll ride out the storms. And today is the perfect day to build a shelter, and be together.
A powerful and uplifting story, exploring the emotions we feel when someone we love has a serious illness.
Publisher: Little Tiger Press Group
ISBN: 9781788815789
Number of pages: 32
Dimensions: 286 x 250 x 9 mm
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“This is a tender tale that was very touching and heartwarming.”
Two sisters love to play together and their favourite thing to do is build shelters where they can be together. That is until the older sister gets sick. The younger one doesn’t understand why they can’t play together... More
“Oh! So Lovely and gentle”
This is a lovely gentle story about families and what emotions you might feel if someone is poorly.
It is a beautifully illustrated and heart warming.
“Poignant, beautiful, perfect.”
This felt like a very special picture book before I even opened it. The cover is simply beautiful and the warmth and love shared by the two characters snuggled into their homemade den is instantly evident.
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