Candma Goes to Heaven

Discussing death with a small child is hard and scary. I think that explaining death or a tragedy to a child is a difficult task for a parent. This was the motivation I had to write the first draft of the book after my mother-in-law’s death. The book is about a boy who faces the death of his beloved grandmother.

The main character in this story, Alex, was younger than my oldest son, but my goal was to show the love and friendship between a grandparent and a grandchild. As the years passed, a...