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the child -- the family’s first dog. But he was not jealous or angry about the new babies when they arrived. And he was not threatened by their presence. He welcomed them with dog kisses and endless patience. He let the girls put pieces of clothing on him. They sometimes slept on top of him. They played with him every day.
So when Sammy died, the children missed him every hour of every day. Their mother said he had gone up into the sky. “When was Sammy coming back,” the girls asked. “Where did he go?”
Barbara Walsh has had a long career and great success as a newspaper reporter. She has won many journalism awards, including the most important one – The Pulitzer Prize. She valued words and writing, and newspapers and books. So she looked for a book that would help her daughters deal with their deep sadness about losing Sammy. But she was unable to find one.
Barbara WalshYes, there were books about dealing with the death of a pet. But, Ms. Walsh says those books “avoided the tough questions.”
She says she “could not find anything that dealt with death honestly at a child’s level.” Her daughters were angry that Sammy could not come back. They kept asking questions about why he left and why he was no longer with them. She knew they needed help dealing with that anger.
Because she was a reporter, Miz Walsh started writing down Emma and Nora’s words as they dealt out loud with Sammy’s death. And she saw in those words a book.
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