"The Sugar Child" by Monique De.Varennes- an incredible
children's book about a girl made of sugar (kind of like the idea of the
gingerbread man) and her parents, knowing that any kind of bad weather
or crying will make her sugar melt, protects her from the weather and
from grief. However, it turns out that it is by crying for the sickness
of a friend, that the girl find out that her tears do indeed melt the
sugar away and transform her into a real girl. A powerful parable about
how a meaningful life and one full of happiness is not found in
protecting us from sorrow or pain, but from experiencing the good and
the sad... "A time to weep, a time to mourn..." Eccles. 3:1-8
Even the pictures are oh, so tender. Beautiful.
