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    Ethan's Butterflies: A Spiritual Book for Young Children and Parents After the Loss of a Baby
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    Ethan's Butterflies: A Spiritual Book for Young Children and Parents After the Loss of a Baby

    By Christine Jonas-Simpson and Karen Friis

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    About this ebook

    When a baby dies one of the first concerns a parent has is the impact this loss has on their young living children. It is difficult to know what to say or how to talk about the death of a long-awaited sibling. Ethan's Butterflies provides a way for parents and professionals to connect with young children who experience the loss of a sibling. This story is written from a young child's perspective and told by a pink elephant named Emma. Emma describes her deep sadness, anger and fears and poses many questions that children often raise. Emma shows how she and her family learn to live with the loss her baby brother Ethan and how they continue to connect with him in many ways, one of which is a butterfly and another is love.

    Net proceeds from the sale of this book will go to bereavement charities, research and education.

    SPECIAL OFFER!! -- Hospitals, Charities and Non-Profit Organizations will receive a 36% Discount on Ethan's Butterflies when ten or more books are ordered. Please indicate what organization you are from and request the discount when you place your order.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9781490719481
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    Ethan's Butterflies: A Spiritual Book for Young Children and Parents After the Loss of a Baby
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    Christine Jonas-Simpson

    Christine Jonas-Simpson’s son Ethan William Simpson was born still on July 15, 2001. Her sons, Jonah and Kyle were three-and-a-half years and twenty-two months old at this time. Christine had difficulty finding a book that reflected her spiritual beliefs and helped her to answer her sons’ many questions. This book was inspired by her sons’ questions and the spiritual answers that came to Christine, her husband Jack and her sons. This second (2010) edition reflects spiritual pointers which Christine has found helpful since the first edition in 2006. Christine received her PhD at Loyola University Chicago in 1998. She is a volunteer for bereaved families and an Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Faculty of Health at York University in Toronto, Canada where she teaches and conducts arts-informed research on transforming with loss. She lives in Toronto with her husband, sons and yellow lab, Frodo.

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      Ethan's ButterfliesA Spiritual Book for Parents and Young Children After a Baby's Passingby Christine Jonas-Simpson & Illustrated by Karen Friis Oh thank God for this heavenly little book. I have been so inspired over the years as more and more of life's truth are being written in ways that our children can understand, so I was very pleased when it came time to review this precious gift of love. This story is about a family of elephants whose youngest child was born still as told from the perspective of his "big sister" and all the many ways that her little brother is still connected in the lives of each member of the family. This book was so sensitive and exceptionally well done. The majestically done illustrations blended with the words to produce a fuzzy blanket of light, love and hope to those breaking little hearts, that just wanna know why, what and how to move on. I would recommend this unique messenger to anyone helping our young ones to deal with the loss of a loved one. Thank you both so much, for giving little minds a way to cope with life on life's terms. Love & Light, Riki Frahmann