Jackie Jack the Brave Little Boy

by Julie Orlet-Schoen and Julie Orlet Schoen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966307607
• ISBN13: 9780966307603
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Woodland Studios
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Sweet story about a sweet little boy

I have the privilige of knowing the author, Julie Orlet Schoen. As you can see by reading this book she really loves children and helps you feel what the parents felt losing their son. The book will help parents who lose a child at any age. I also think that the book will also help any siblings, aunts, uncles, and such in losing a child in the family. I lost my little brother over 30 years ago, I never got to know him as he died at 2 days old. This book helped me with dealing with his death and my missing him. Now I beleive that he is in heaven looking over me and laughing his head off at what I'm going through. Just like a younger sibiling would do to an older sibling. Read the book and I beleive it will become one of your favorite books. The authors and illustrator really brings the book to life.

review by a bereaved parent

We lost a young child to leukemia, and it is difficult to explain the existence of an older sibling to our children who were born after her death. With that goal, I read this book to my 2 year old daughter. In the book, Jackie Jack is an infant who becomes sick, spends time in the hospital, then goes home with his parents, where he reaches for a light and jumps into the arms of angels; then his parents climb a mountain, where they feel his love in the sunlight, the breeze, a rainbow. The book is based on a true story; Jackie Jack's parents released his ashes at the top of a mountain.As a mother, I found the book very touching in its simplicity. At least I thought it was simple (read on!). I particularly liked the picture of Jackie Jack's mother sleeping with him in the hospital bed, because I used to do that. It was also appropriate for us because we brought our child home to die.My two year old had problems with the pictures, which carry some messages that are not in the text. After Jackie Jack dies, he is alternately shown as an angel or as heart symbols. She found this confusing: In the heart pictures, she asked, "Where's the baby?" That was a wonderful opportunity to talk about his spirit leaving his body. I could have done without the angels, since we havn't taught her to think of dead people as flying around with wings. To her it looked as if the baby was alive again. She pointed to the halo and asked "what's this?" I personally had a problem with the fact that the hospital bldg is drawn with a white cross on top; I would have preferred a non-denominational medical symbol. Also, the picture on the mountain top shows an urn with hearts flowing out of it. Fortunately, my 2 year old didn't notice the urn and ask about it, because cremation is not approved in our religion (the text does not mention it). However, this is not a generic book designed for readers of all faiths and practices: this is Jackie Jack's story. I felt that the book -is- appropriate for parents trying to tell a young child about a sibling who died, if you are comfortable with these images.

Jackie Jack the Brave Little Boy

If you have had the gravest misfortune to have lost a child to cancer or have known someone close who has, this short book will resonate deep within your center of being.Beautifully illustrated and marvelously told, the book shares the story of the short life of an infant with leukemia. It is written in a way one would expect to tell a child about the loss of a brother or sister.I literally stumbled upon the book while hiking in the mountains. It had been placed in a safe haven in the rocks by his parents with an accompanying journal. They gave an open invitation to anyone who stumbled upon it to express themselves freely. (I think the journal entries themselves would make for an inspiring book)Every night when I walk my dog and look up at "Jack's mountain", I think of that truely brave little boy and wonder how I can love my own children more and more each day.