‘Where Did Grandma Go’ Children’s Book Explores Grief And Loss

Sooner or later, grief has the ability to trigger a ripple impact in our lives, no matter our age. 

Following her mom’s passing, Chantal Rochelle discovered her younger niece grappling to return to phrases with such a magnitude of loss. This prompted her to develop the concept of writing a youngsters’s ebook, The place Did Grandma Go?, to assist younger (and never so younger) individuals be taught to deal with the shift that comes with shedding somebody you’re keen on.

“It’s such a private story,” she informed MadameNoire. “My mom transitioned in 2019, and when that occurred, my complete world shifted. I keep in mind watching my sister, significantly my niece, attempt to perceive all of it. I imply, she was solely 3 on the time. I noticed how confused and heartbroken she was as a result of she and my mother have been thick as thieves. I additionally noticed how deeply curious she was. She’s very intuitive herself. She had all these massive questions, and there was no straightforward solution to reply one thing so impactful.”

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Rochelle added, “I noticed that there weren’t any tales to speak to her, I gained’t say there weren’t any, however even for me, in that second, penning this ebook from a toddler’s perspective, moderately, allowed me to honor her innocence and her honesty and simply intrinsic, curious surprise that she has and has all the time had. Kids grieve in actual time with surprise and type of like directness, and I needed to fulfill that with tenderness, area, compassion, reality, and simply honesty, as finest as attainable. I gravitate so dearly in direction of youngsters, I feel simply with having this curious surprise that jogs my memory of simply being a child and having the world as your oyster, and having, once more, this eye and lens of simply purity.”