"This book is meant to help children cope with grief. Sometimes you know the pain Schmierle has when you have lost a loved one yourself. Death is carefully explained and the hope that there is a new beginning in every end. I find it a comforting picture, that death is not final, but only a metamorphosis, and how could this be better explained than with the metamorphosis from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Even the caterpillar has to leave everything it has loved, because its life on the ground is over, but a life in the sky begins. She gets wings and can fly and see everything with different eyes. Maybe children will ask why when turned into a butterfly Schmatz doesn't fly to Schmierle and tell him that she has now become a butterfly. If there had been a poetic answer to that, the book woul...