White Ravens, 2023
Blip Award 2025 for Best Editorial Work
Best of the Year Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil. Brazil, 2025
Highly recommended Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e
Juvenil. Brazil, 2025

What happens when we die? Do thoughts disappear? How long does sadness last when someone we love dies?

This book brings together 38 “deadly” questions asked by children aged 5 to 15 from different countries, who were invited to reflect on death with curiosity, honesty, and without prejudice. Each question provides the basis for one of the chapters of this informative, tender, rigorous, and surprisingly cheerful book, which opens up a space for conversation, reflection, and questioning about death (and life, of course).

In Tomi Ungerer’s Ask Me a Question vein, each answer is written as a personal letter addressed to the child who asked the question. They intertwine explanations, anecdotes, and curiosities that broaden the reader’s perspective.
Opening the pages of this book is like opening the door to sharing experiences, fears, doubts, scientific curiosity, and philosophical wonder about death, naturally and at any time. The content has been reviewed by a biologist and a psychologist.

Among the questions that inspired the book:

When we die, does our whole body die at once? (Ariadna, age 6)
How does the skin go away? (Nacho, age 5)
When you die, do your thoughts go away? (Isaí, age 5)
If someone you love dies, how long are you sad? (Lorena, age 10)
And if I die, what will happen to my PlayStation? (Gael, age 7)
Why do people commit suicide? (Iain, age 11)
Why do we say “rest in peace” and not “rest in fun”? (Lucía, 9 years old)

An interesting and revolutionary book that seeks to demystify death through questions asked by children. La Vanguardia

Full of imagination, humor, and irony… A title that can be enjoyed at any age and at many different times and not necessarily at the time of grief. El País

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