In this moving, sensitive story, a little girl loses the daddy who filled the family life with colour, but learns that her memories will keep him with them for ever. Through lively, joyful scenes of family life that will be immediately familiar to children, we see how much fun they had together, Daddy seeing colour in everything.’ Then the action slows, illustrations sensitively depicting how things change as Daddy gets ill, and the world turns grey. The family’s sorrow is clear but then we see how the memories captured in Erin’s scrapbook can make them smile again and a final view of a bright rainbow demonstrates with lovely clarity how Daddy is always with them. This is an ideal book to share with children to help them understand and cope with loss.
Erin's daddy sees the colour in everything. Even on the greyest days, they put on their wellies and go splashing in puddles because, Daddy says, 'We can't see rainbows without rain!'
But what happens when the greyest day of all comes, and Daddy isn't there any more? Can Erin learn to find colour in the world again?
This deeply sensitive picture book about the loss of a parent is the ideal starting point for conversations about love, loss and learning to live again.
Lucy Rowland grew up in Cheltenham and gained a degree in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Reading before becoming a children's speech and language therapist in South London where she now lives. Lucy has loved reading and listening to poetry from a young age and has turned her passion into writing picture book stories with quirky characters and irresistible rhythms. Pirate Pete and His Smelly Feet is Lucy's first picture book with Macmillan.
