You'll Find Me

A tender story about grief, healing, and honoring special memories 

This lyrical picture book offers a comforting way to talk about loss with children, encouraging them to find peace, understanding, and connection even when someone they love is no longer physically present. Through warm, reflective narration, this book gently guides young readers toward recognizing that memories can hold meaning, closeness, and hope. 

Thoughtful scenes invite children to acknowledge the empty spaces left behind while exploring heartfelt ways to remember family members, friends, pets, and others who are absent. The story helps kids see that love continues in the moments they carry forward, and that remembrance can be a source of comfort as they process grief and healing. 

Key features: 

• supports emotional understanding: helps children recognize and talk about feelings related to grief, absence, and remembrance
• encourages healthy coping: offers simple, nurturing ideas for honoring memories and creating new moments infused with love and connection 
• ideal for read-aloud and discussion: gentle language and expressive scenes make this a supportive choice for families, classrooms, and counseling settings
• social-emotional learning focus: opens the door to meaningful conversations about empathy, healing, reflection, and celebrating the people or pets we miss
• trusted publisher: from Magination Press, the children's imprint of APA, experts in child development and emotional well-being

Amanda Rawson Hill coruns a newsletter called Middle Grade at Heart, which is a book club kit with a new middle-grade book each month. Her debut middle-grade book was published in Fall 2018.

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Joanne Lew-Vriethoff is an award-winning illustrator who received her BA in illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She illustrates for picture books, middle grade novels, early readers, and educational books.

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Death is a particularly difficult topic to discuss with children, but this book helps to broach the subject gently and with respect for young people’s sensibilities…. An excellent choice for children who are dealing with the loss of a loved one or just learning about death.
—Kirkus Starred Review

At a time when many kids are facing the loss of a loved one due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this title offers a reassuring take on the topic… Reflecting the gentle tone of the book, the illustrations are soft and warm and are primarily in pastel colors. These show kids with a range skin tones engaging in various activities—playing the piano, picking flowers, reading, sitting at a beach, sledding. In most of the pictures, the kids are smiling as they appear to be remembering their lost loved one, creating a hopeful vibe
—School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2-At a time when many kids are facing the loss of a loved one due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this title offers a reassuring take on the topic. In poetic text, an unnamed narrator describes different ways that people we love remain with us after they die. "I will not always be greeting the morning with you. But you'll find me in the soft sounds of slippered feet." The concepts in this title are a little abstract, and will likely need to be unpacked for listeners with a discussion during reading or afterward. Reflecting the gentle tone of the book, the illustrations are soft and warm and are primarily in pastel colors. These show kids with a range skin tones engaging in various activities-playing the piano, picking flowers, reading, sitting at a beach, sledding. In most of the pictures, the kids are smiling as they appear to be remembering their lost loved one, creating a hopeful vibe. VERDICT Although this title doesn't break any new ground, it is appropriate to give to kids dealing with grief and loss. Recommended for larger collections.-Melanie Kletter, School Library Journalα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
—School Library Journal

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