tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post660886046035634230..comments2011-01-20T04:28:13.704ZAlex Walshhttps://profiles.google.com/106756625707336814554noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-1875395942403749072011-01-20T04:28:13.704Z2011-01-20T04:28:13.704ZThis would have been a perfect book 6 months ago for my neices (3yr and 2yr)to have become aware about loss without emotional baggage. Death and bereavement is something that will happen to all kids even if its just their pet fish. Its better to gently prepare them for it. Now with their father dying it's too late. Which of us is going to be able to read it to them now without falling to pieces?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-60717423586028963842010-12-07T14:09:09.778Z2010-12-07T14:09:09.778ZI think the point of this book is to help communicate about death when it happens, perhaps not before. If a grandmother or grandfather dies and a granchild is attached to them, it might be difficult to explain this. I think this book is made largely for this type of circumstance. Perhaps in Holland it's more common to find three generations under a roof, so that's why Bruna wrote it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-77154482248642819102010-11-16T10:54:13.581Z2010-11-16T10:54:13.581ZWell, maybe not the best book to read as a bedtime story. But for many children who had to go through a death in the familly probably it is a really good help.Another beautifull book about death, this one very poetic and beautifull for adults too is Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf ErlbruchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-20742464472848892022010-06-20T09:07:54.388+01:002010-06-20T09:07:54.388+01:00yay miffy died brawl taunts poop rulesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-56153683475826906502010-06-18T22:07:31.576+01:002010-06-18T22:07:31.576+01:00it is sick and another thing in the jackie wilson book cookie there is a bit where a pet bunny is found dead without a head a dad calls it a bloody thing , someone is called a jumped up little tart and someone is called a nosy git so it is a no no if you hate disturbing things and dear grandma bunny seems like a sick book ......maybe dick bruna could make a morbid miffy story to go like this miffy is killed by a terrorist. one day miffy went on the underground train and someone detonated a nail bomb next to miffy and miffys guts,legs,arms and head flew onto the crowd and killed all those other disgustingly ugly miffy type bunnies as wellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-14142838320305894072010-05-11T19:55:12.615+01:002010-05-11T19:55:12.615+01:00I think you should show this Miffy book to your child/children at the age of 6 or 7, due to the fact that you do not want to show sadness too early. Tell them at an age that they will understand death and the fact that the world isn't perfect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-79787977432392595772010-02-26T14:46:09.359Z2010-02-26T14:46:09.359Znot sure i'd want to broach this one with my 3.5 year old. I see no need for them to learn about death this young if they don't have to.Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17165208811776097332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3072909291104887374.post-56168694585195853482010-02-26T14:25:58.938Z2010-02-26T14:25:58.938ZThis kind of book is great as a tool for helping children process events we find it difficult to explain ourselves but I would reserve them for when the event has actually happened rather than to introduce them to one of life's sadness' so early. Keep the book on the shelf out of reach and I hope very very much that your children and my own will be well beyond the Miffy reading years before we need to explain about dying grandparents.Garden Mumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632252721947346861noreply@blogger.com