The End of Something Wonderful: A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral

**With gentle humor and quirkiness, this sympathetic book demonstrates how to say goodbye to a beloved pet and give it a proper sendoff. "\[*The End of Something Wonderful* is\] really good. It's funny and sardonic and it gets to be touching at the end."** *-Betsy Bird, School Library Journal* Children love their pets very much-and when the animals die, that loss can be hard to process. *The End of Something Wonderful* helps kids handle their feelings when they're hurting and can't find all the right words. In a warm, understanding, sometimes funny way, it guides children as they plan a backyard funeral to say goodbye, from choosing a box and a burial spot to giving a eulogy and wiping away tears. Most of all, it reassures them that it's not the end of everything . . . and that ***Something Wonderful can always happen again.***