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Pain is acknowledged and it gives the rhetoric of feelings and an opportunity to children to explore what they’re feeling.” “Children have feelings but at a young age they don’t have the cognitive capacity to articulate their emotions.
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Noelle says A Robin’s Tale is a tool to help parents discuss the sombre topic of death with young children. The robin watches his family grow and flourish, joining them in their joy and sorrow. It is recounted from the perspective of the father who has transformed into a robin and visits them to check on their health and happiness. Published by Currach Books, A Robin’s Tale explores the grief and eventual recovery of a family from the passing of the father. Her story renders the age-old tale of robins appearing in the form of a loved one, who has passed away, into moving poetry and illustrations to engage young readers and ease them into the difficult topic. These stories gradually evolved into a book to help children understand death through the robin symbolism. “It’s just something we grew up hearing: a robin visiting was a loved one looking after us – granddad coming from Heaven to look in on us.”Ī passionate believer in reading/telling stories to children at bedtime, the Leitrim-based mother – her son Senan is five – began to create stories for her children about the robin. “After my dad died, we started getting visited by a robin, so it became our rhetoric – ‘there’s Poppy Tom coming to visit’,” explains Noelle, who growing up had come across this robin symbolism. We were all impacted and she would have noticed that change in us,” says Noelle. She was a little person with feelings – it was a massive shock for her. His death was overwhelming for all of us. “Because she was the first grandchild, she had really bonded with my mum and dad.