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Dealing with the death of a pet is never easy, but it can be especially crushing for children, since it's probably their first experience with death.
When Naperville freelance writer Melissa Wells' beagle died at age 13 from cancer, she found there were no words for her to console her young sons. As part of her own healing process, Wells decided to write her story down to help her family, and others. The result is Remembering Ruby: For Families Living Beyond the Loss of a Pet, the story of a boy whose beagle, Ruby, becomes terminally ill, and how his family copes together through finding ways to remember her. Wells uses pictures of Bijoux (the real Ruby) to illustrate the book.
We liked Remembering Ruby for its message of never-ending friendship, even through death, and for the guide for parents at the end of the book on how-to deal with a pet's loss. At 60 pages, it might be a little long for younger readers and sometimes the format and pictures seem more like a work-in-progess than finished product. Overall, though, we commend Wells for tackling such a difficult subject, and wish that we had something like Remembering Ruby the first time we had to deal with loss.
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Wow, the stars are aligned!
Chicagoist “commends Wells for tackling such a difficult subject”, and Le Spook, commends, Chicagoist for spending time on this great book selection on how a “Baby on Board” Napervanilla Mother handles the “crushing” trauma of her son's/ families grief over a dead 13 year old dog by writing a book detailing how the family over came to “cope together through finding ways to remember” the dead dog.
I don’t give a tootie pot pie if Miss Wells’s privileged life is so narrowly defined to write a book about this crap, but for Chicagoist to share it with us in these times?
Well I guess its better than wondering about how Nay Nay’s,Shaquita, etc, etc deals with their brother getting shot while slinging drugs on the ave., or killed by random gun shots while walking to the corner store after school.
Or how Candy Lee who lives in the hills of West Virginia tries to explain to baby Destiny that her brother Billy Joe aint coming home from the war.
Better hurry up and censor this, because I’m sure Miss Wells is thrilled to her moneyed gills to receive some “coverage” on her grand literary accomplishment, and would be greatly offended at this uncivilized insult. And of course her child would be further traumatized to read that some one in the world thinks publishing a book about his dead dog is stupid.
Happy Holidays! :-)
Oh and how did I miss the nice diamond clasp on the collar, oh la la!
Oh Spook. It's been a minute hasn't it?
Yea its been one kitten, but really am I totally off on this one? Look at that collar!
and I'm a proud dog owner myself!
Perhaps her follow-up will be on a topic more interesting to you, Spook; like the death of your soul.
well Big Pikchur,
I know that Robert Pippin proclaimed "The Death of the Novel" a long time ago.
But honestly I think it takes a person with a deep rooted and a continued rooting soul to have the courage to challenge the above Americana classiest narcissism.
And I know you "libs" think I speak to be bombastic instead of out of unfeigned honesty,
but please tell me how what I said could equate to soullessness?
And how ironic that you call yourself "Bigpikchur".
Ironic even further when Miss. Wells a freelance writer in Naperville who's dog at 13( about 150 in human years)got "diagnosed with cancer" and died, "found there were no words for her to console her young sons".
Perhaps had she some perspective on the big picture which I mentioned in my first post, she would have found a wonderful, colorful poignant wide ranging vocabulary to put in perspective the death of her pet and perhaps she could have used said transition to teach her sons the word empathy for others as a way to deal with personal “tragedy”
But who cares right? Why should she have too? Membership has its privileges. No please excuse me.As I type and think about this I grow tired and in need of a drink
Enjoy the book
Spook I believe anyone has the right to write a novel about anything they wish. No matter how inane. Your wrath is correct but should be aimed at the moron who would publish such crap. I wont be reading this I am waiting for the follow up about how a family copes with the tragedy of having a flat tire and AAA cant come out to change it for them.