Where Are You, Eddie?
Michael Rosen author Gill Smith illustrator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Walker Books Ltd
Publishing:12th Mar '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 12th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the author of Michael Rosen’s Sad Book comes a moving story of loss and acceptance.
Michael’s son Eddie has died. But does that mean he has really gone?
Michael decides to go and look for him. Visiting the places they went together and speaking to his friends and siblings, he discovers how Eddie is alive in their memories. Eddie is still here.
Simply told, and with emotional honesty by the former Children’s Laureate about his own experience of losing his son Eddie, this is a vital book for children dealing with grief and loss, showing how a loved one can be kept with you through memories. Illustrated with warmth and sensitivity by acclaimed illustrator Gill Smith, and with an afterword by Michael Rosen.
Michael Rosen's new book, gorgeously illustrated by Gill Smith, is an incredibly moving exploration of grief, loss, love and memory. Beginning with a conversation between Rosen and his cat Meg, the story follows his experience of losing his son Eddie, and examines how we might find our lost loved ones in the places we shared with them and in the people who knew them.
Rosen writes with remarkable sensitivity and humanity, and I know I'll be thinking about this book for a long time.
This is a beautiful book that explores what happens when someone close to you dies and how their memory can live within us and the special moments we experience. I loved the idea of the cat bringing comfort. Sensitively covers a difficult topic. * NetGalley Reviewer *
A poignant and gorgeously illustrated picture book on grief for children 5-9, and for adults too seeking solace after loss. Highly recommended! * NetGalley Reviewer *
Picture books about grief are always needed and urgent, and Rosen's work is as expected: touching, poignant, gripping, witty.
I think telling more will spoil the rest. When I started reading this book, I had forgotten some of the blurb, and letting myself ride the wave proved to be a good choice.
Will introduce this book to my child, and reminisce our deceased as well as cherishing our memories with them.
This is a very emotional picture book, dealing with the topic of grief in a gentle, mature way. All grief is hard for so many deal with, but when it comes to the death of your child it is so much more incredibly harder. And yet families are having to deal with this far too often and this is a book that I feel could support the whole family so well and allow for sensitive discussions to begin to take place. In fact I know of some adults that would hugely benefit from reading this book after the loss of their child, as well as for their other children, as it is written so beautifully.
You can tell that the author, Michael Rosen, is writing from the heart and with the experience of time. I am sure that at times this was a very difficult book to write but I am glad that he says it also helped him. The illustrations are so beautifully done and work well with the text.
ISBN: 9781529522877
Dimensions: 272mm x 236mm x 8mm
Weight: 360g
32 pages