It was the first time we had talked about the idea of death and loss and then fast forward a few months and we were on a plane and he was looking out the window and he said, ‘I don’t see her.’ And I said, ‘You don’t see who?’ And he said, ‘I don’t see Grandma P. “He ended up with this kind of preoccupation, I’d even call it, for several days and then weeks about how he wanted to go to Heaven. And he said, ‘No! I want to go see her in Heaven,’” Davis recounted in an AFRO Live interview. And at first I thought he meant he wanted to see pictures so I’m getting out pictures of her with him when he was a baby. So we were talking about Grandma P, his grandmother who passed away when he was just one and he didn’t remember her and so he wanted to see her. “ How High is Heaven? basically is based off of my son coming to me one day after school and saying how come his friend has two grandmas and two grandpas and he just had one of each. Using her own conversations with her son about loss, and considering the hundreds of thousands of young people who have experienced loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, How High is Heaven is a narrative that helps children understand the complicated and nuanced subject of death. and Digital years into the coronavirus pandemic and with more than 900,000 American lives lost, ABC News Correspondent and bestselling author Linsey Davis has a new children’s book that is sure to resonate with readers who have lost a loved one.
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