Will It Be Okay?: A Picture Book
Staff Reviews
This sweet book takes the huge questions children ask and answers in a gentle, loving conversation between a little girl and her mother. Mom listens attentively and helps her child find possibilities and ways to draw comfort from all the goodness around her. Leaving her with the feeling that it will, in fact, be okay.
Description
Award-winning author Crescent Dragonwagon teams up with award-winning Julián Is a Mermaid illustrator Jessica Love to present a powerful updated edition of a classic picture book that asks a tough question and answers it with humanity, humor, and grace.
In this timeless picture book classic, a child asks, Will it be okay? That bee sting, that thunderstorm, those powerful feelings, losing a loved one.
Will It Be Okay? Yes—yes, it will.
“This tender tale is a balm for worried children in troubled times and a model of comfort for caregivers to offer them . . . More than OK. Much more.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“With empathy, the creators imagine a parent with an uncanny ability to hear a child’s concerns, to hold the emotions that accompany them, and to think and talk about them.”—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Will It Be Okay?: A Picture Book
**STARRED REVIEW**
"This tender tale is a balm for worried children in troubled times and a model of comfort for caregivers to offer them. . .More than OK. Much more."
— Kirkus Reviews
"With empathy, the creators imagine a parent with an uncanny ability to hear a child’s concerns, to hold the emotions that accompany them, and to think and talk about them."
— Publishers Weekly
