Tulip and Lupin Forever by Mireille LevertMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
She had me at "dog bee". This is a story about love and loss and an unusual one, not your typical dog and owner but a watering fairy named Tulip and her dog bee honeymaker named Lupin. When Lupin dies, Tulip is terribly sad. The story is spot on about the long lingering sadness of the loss of someone beloved and about the slow and careful bloom of recovery. If you have an artist/poet friend or family member (or someone with the soul of an artist and poet) who has lost a pet, this might be the perfect offering. The entire time I was reading and loving it even though misty-eyed thinking about our beloved Moky), I was thinking how my daughter will find this a perfect expression about her relationship with Moky and her new one with young TuckerBoo. I do, however, wish some of these books came with a little sticker from the publisher, however, as I know there will be parents tucked in next to their wee one reading happily and then - oh my - the realization you are in the middle of a very sad book in the armload you grabbed on the run from the library. Clever librarian I am, I will put it aside in my special issues shelf - the ones parents appreciate (so they tell me) so they don't have to slog through a bunch of picturebooks to locate the ones on grief and loss and other difficulties of being human.
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