The Golden Bird

by Hans Stolp

Book Overview

Engaged in a losing battle with cancer, ten-year-old Daniel is comforted by many people but finds his greatest solace in the visits of a phoenix-like golden bird and its vision of rebirth and renewal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440406110
• ISBN13: 9780440406112
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 55 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Required reading

This is a beautiful, slender book, with perfect illustrations, telling in the first person voice of a child his transition from life to death. I was going to list this book for sale, but will pass it around to friends instead, and hope to get it back. This is a title that will bring both comfort and tears to anyone facing the death of themselves or someone they love (all of us). I would share this book with even a quite young child, and with grown-ups of all ages as well. First published in the Netherlands and translated into English. Recommended by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.