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Summary: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf covers every aspect of life!
Review: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf is the best that I have found to not only help children understand the death of friends and loved ones, but to also help a terminal child understand what is happening to her. I have used it as a stepping stone for conversation on death. This book touches on all aspects of life. My husband and I have given out better than 50 copies! Three cheers for this book!
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Summary: A must have for every household
Review: This book is so eloquent and profound, you may not be able to read through it without using up a box of tissues. As a family therapist, I have assisted children with grief on many times. I always strongly recommend this book. In American culture, we have been taught to think of death as unnatural. This is due to many reasons. A few are the youth obsessed media and advancements in science that have dramatically extended life expentancies. Other nations view death as a natural process. It is embraced as a season of life; therefore it is feared less. Freddie helps put death back into a natural perspective. The book has a spiritual, but non-demoninational tone. This is a must have for any home, not just for someone who is grieving. It truly is poetry.
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Summary: A gentle way to present a difficult thing...
Review: This book offers a mentoring approach as an older leaf shows a younger leaf that life isn't bad when it changes. Changes are what life is about. I would recommend this book to anyone who has children who are going through a traumatic experience, particularly the death of a loved one. This book is a true classic.
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Summary: One of the few books that stands out about my childhood
Review: This book stands out above any other book I ever read during my childhood. I did not realize how important it was until I reached adulthood. My mother read this book to me when I was 10 years old. It was the saddest but heart-warming story I've heard. It tought me about death and most importantly a little more about life. I highly recommend this book to any parent.
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Summary: Healing
Review: This book touches the heart and fills you with hope in the never ending experience of love. The focus of this story is about love, and how love enables us to face some of life's most difficult challenges. It is a book about change, death, and transition. The Fall of Freddie the Leaf should be on the bookshelves of anyone going through change, loss, and transition. Enjoy!I also recommend: What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living by Samuel Oliver
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Summary: Superb book for explaining a substantial loss!
Review: This book was given to my brother and I when our father was killed. It was a comforting way to explain death to a ten year old and a five year old when no one else could come up with the right thing to say to two children who just wanted their dad back. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has lost someone and is at a loss of words on how to explain to a child what has happened.
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Summary: The Fall of Freddie the leaf
Review: THis is an EXCELLENT book! It simply explains the life cycle in a non-threatening way. The birth of a leaf in early spring, followed by the growth, and eventual transformation in fall. It addresses the reason for being. It shows many positives and contributions that you can have in life. Simple but important contributions. This book softly and matter of factly addresses the end of life. It has a calm and peaceful feel. What a tender approach to a difficult topic. It also introduces the cycle of life by approaching spring as a new beginning. Life is part of death. Death as part of life. BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN! Great to read to children of any age. Great book to begin to prepare children for eventual losses...even before they are expected.
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Summary: A beautifully simple tale
Review: This is the kind of resource book you can refer to repeatedly, as needed. And, it makes the perfect gift for people of all ages. Deals with the subject of grief with sensivity and beauty. A real classic! Certain similarities to BOOMERANG - A MIRACLE TRILOGY, which is also a story for all ages, dealing with the loss of a pet.
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Summary: I love the "message without the sermon" flavor.....
Review: We all will die, but not all of us are willing to believe in the concocted "life after death" experiences that every religion in every society has developed to help us cope with our reluctance to accept death and its finality. This book is great for teaching children about life, purpose, and death without smothering the lesson with religious jargon and terrifying messages of a one-shot deal to avoid the fiery pit of hell... This is a worthy read for anyone.
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Summary: I still cry when I read it
Review: We are all Freddie in our own different way. Fighting agaist something with all our might, but in the end accepting and loving it. With it's simple, but true style, we are returned to a state of childhood and reminded of the true nature of life
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