Warning: Sensitive Topic: Possible Trigger for some

Rant, sorry. Creepy sells. It's greedy, self indulgent hoo hah. Do these people care or respect anyone besides their own selves? It seems not. I can see how a couple might want to write this out, get it down and away from their system. Then, please, burn it ritually in a campfire somewhere. But writing it and publishing it as a book and making money off of it!? For goodness sakes, have some taste, class, restraint. I'm tempted to label these people among the lowest of the low, carefully writing and picturing themselves as cool and trendy.

I can't say that I approve of any author using such a polarizing and completely adult subject under the guise of a children's story as a catalyst to push much of any political agenda.

Or maybe it's [the book] a way to start a conversation with a child about something that happened because, for whatever reason, they start asking questions or need to know.

I don't see a pushed agenda. I see a hard topic being gently explained- like a LOT of other children's books about serious stuff. I don't see cool and trendy, I see hard choices- regardless of my personal feelings on the subject.

I don't see a lot of the things people are assigning here evidenced pretty much anywhere in the book or in the author's note. Perhaps there is some place others are looking that I'm not aware of.

While that may very well be the case Laz, I think this is a **** attempt at addressing it to be honest. I understand the want to be honest with our children as much as possible, as I do for my child. But this is a tough subject to even try to skirt around with a child much less addressing it head on, and while I can appreciate they tried to do something this is a marginal solution to the problem at best. So with that being said while to date I can't think of any question from my daughter that I have had to evade, if she were to ask about this the best answer I could give her is "when you are older".

The part about the sister being a ghost seemed very strange to me. For parents to use this book to talk about such an issue with their child, those parents would have to share the author's exact viewpoint, which seemed to be that the fetus is a child, that it is ok to kill that child (I'm not stating these things in order to argue for or against a side. I'm only saying that this is how this author depicts things). That this child will enter some sort of after life where they will be happy they were killed. (Or that this is at least what you should tell other children/siblings of that aborted child).

Once again, I'm not stating these things in order to argue for or against a side. I'm only saying that this is how this author depicts things.

Wow... I have no words. And the back cover, too..