How can we explain what death is to a young child?  As adults we do not so much understand death, as gain the courage to confront it.  This poem, representing one mother's heartfelt effort to explain to her child, deserves notice by a wider public.  Pages not numbered.  

Book has been read. Hardcover has white cloth boards with black lettering and color illustration of live(rear cover)/dormant(front cover) tree. No DJ. Ffep torn out to hide ownership.  Nick on bottom rear cover. Privately owned, not ex-library.  Interior is tight, clean and unmarked.  

Copyright 1965.  Stated 4th printing, 1971.  Printed in U.S.A.  ISBN: 0-8225-0256-9.  LCCN: 65-22217.  No MSR.  

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