ABOUT THE BOOK
Ruairí’s Rocket to heaven is a children’s story book for families, carers and professionals to explore, and navigate the difficult topic of death and bereavement with children from the age of 4+ years old.
With gentle illustrations and clear language the book takes young readers into life with two brothers, Charlie and Ruairí. The first part of the book describes the boys’ life together e.g. playing, bath-time, cuddles. The second part focusses on Charlie’s life after his brothers death. It explores feelings like sadness, fear, anger and confusion and looks at different ways to express grief and find comfort in memories, through Charlie’s experiences.
This is a story of heartbreak and hope, of hurting and healing, and of being happy again with sadness inside our hearts. A story of everlasting love between two brothers.
Unfortunately it’s a story that isn’t just my family’s, many young children go through this.
Our book can offer comfort and support to young children and their families during their own incredibly difficult times and that means the world to us. Each time Ruairí’s Rocket helps another family, Ruairí’s life continues to make a difference.
The story was illustrated by Beth Cole. Beth is an amazingly talented, considered and intuitive artist. She illustrated my boys and the emotion inside each memory beautifully.
You can find her work at instagram.com/herebythewoods
This book is a gem! It can be so incredibly difficult to find books for siblings who experienced the death of a baby and had some time and memories at home before their death. There are several books about pregnancy/infant loss for siblings and even a handful of books on the death of older siblings, but this category can be very difficult to find. So grateful to have this book filling the gap. Highly recommend this book.
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