Where Are You Now

Where Are You Now
ISBN: 9781771473675
Publication Date: 1 December 2019

A powerful entry point for talking about loss and death.

Just as the sun sets to make way for the rising moon, or snowflakes melt only to return as fog and mist, things that disappear in nature often reappear in different forms. This picture book uses this simple but powerful metaphor of disappearance and reappearance as an entry point for talking with children about death.

Drawing examples from nature - seeds, stars, and even the growth of children into adults - this book provides a bright and joyful framework for readers to begin to understand the passing of a loved one, or to help shape difficult conversations around death.

Written in accessible verse and illustrated in bright washes of watercolour, this is a beautiful, gentle book that invites young readers to find comfort in transformation. Built around the idea that death can be thought of as a kind of regeneration, the narrative shows how a loved one's presence can be felt in meaningful and enduring ways.

Book Features:

• Evocative full-page art is paired with poetic language.
• Inspired by the author's wish to share her mother's memory with her own young children.
• A useful starting point for talking about the death of a loved one.

About the Author

Tyler Clark Burke is an award-winning creative director, writer, illustrator, and artist, and author of Bill Bowerbird and the Unbearable Beak-Ache. She co-founded the acclaimed record label Three Gut Records, and continues to work creatively with musicians.