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The Ones We Love

Brief Description
The Ones We Love is a gentle picture book intended for anyone confronting grief, from a very young child to an adult of any age. When a loved one passes away, the quiet embrace of nature can comfort us if we just stop, look and listen.... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The Ones We Love is a gentle picture book intended for anyone confronting grief, from a very young child to an adult of any age.

When a loved one passes away, the quiet embrace of nature can comfort us if we just stop, look and listen.

Through soft, hand-painted watercolour illustrations and few words, The Ones We Love takes the reader on a thoughtful and sensitive journey of navigating loss. With her faithful bunny beside her, a child experiences the healing touch of nature. Hope arrives, followed by faith, and ultimately assurance in the spiritual enormity of all that surrounds us. Even when they are gone, our loved one's love is always with us.

The idea for this story came to the author in a quiet moment of reflection, upon the loss of her own beloved mother. It is her greatest hope that it can bring comfort to others faced with the loss of a loved one.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781965122020

Publisher: Heron Feather Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 December 2025

Imprint: Heron Feather Books

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 299g

Pages: 26

About the Author

Lisa is a writer and artist who has lived in America's beautiful Northeast her whole life. Her love of her craft was a gift from her mother and her grandmother, both artists, who taught her to observe our world with a sensitive eye, appreciating all of nature, from the tiniest spider to the furthest star. The Ones We Love is Lisa's first picture book. Upon the loss of her beloved mother, the words arrived one morning as if on a breeze. The illustrations soon followed.Lisa is a graduate of Brown University, earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Hofstra University, and is a doctoral candidate at Drew University where she is a professor of Public Speaking to international students.To learn more, and to read Lisa's stories and essays, visit her website at lisanapolitan.com.

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