Kitty is worried because Fish isn't swimming anymore. Dog and Kitty try to make Fish swim, but nothing works. Giraffe knows that Fish has died. Together, the friends bury Fish. Kitty is sad and wants to do something so she won't forget Fish.

A philosophical conversation about death from the author of I Give You My Heart. "Are you going to die, Grandpa?" "Someday, sweetheart. But I hope not too soon." Their simple exchange covers a lot of philosophical ground. Grandpa allows that "no one really knows" what happens after death, but he tells Christopher that some people think of heaven ("a place without sadness or war"), others of rebirth ("each time, you get wiser"), and others of "nothing"...

When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.

Coping with a loss, a father and daughter rediscover an important piece of family history and begin to build a new life filled with adventure, in a book that features twenty letter-by-letter word shifts. All words start with the letter "P."

"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...

"A bird helps a human boy rediscover music after his grandfather passes away."--

A shoemaker repeatedly outwits a black-robed figure who knocks on the shoemaker's door and demands his soul.

Explores the way that some people leave the world and others come into it, and how those who come into it eventually leave it.

"An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be extraordinary in this story about new life, death, and family"--

When his mother dies, a little boy is angry at his loss but does everything he can to hold onto the memory of her scent, her voice, and the special things she did for him, even as he tries to help his father and grandmother cope.