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Fly High: Understanding Grief with God's Help
Experiencing loss––in the varied ways it comes to us––affects everyone differently.
As adults, we have ways to verbalize how we are feeling. Many children, however, lack the vocabulary and the understanding to name the emotions they experience when they go through grief. They just know they are hurting inside.
They are feeling sad, angry, lonely, or maybe even scared.
These feelings manifest in different ways depending on the age of the children. This book explores the story of a sister and a brother who love watching a mama bird care for her babies until the unthinkable happens-the mother bird dies. The reader is taken on a journey through various stages of emotions associated with grief.
It ends, however, with baby birds learning to fly, and the promise of hope that is found in new beginnings.
With hope-filled language featured in the layered-text format, our desire is that each reader will discover it's okay to have the feelings he or she is having and that, each new day holds (italic) healing, hope, and promise.
As adults, we have ways to verbalize how we are feeling. Many children, however, lack the vocabulary and the understanding to name the emotions they experience when they go through grief. They just know they are hurting inside.
They are feeling sad, angry, lonely, or maybe even scared.
These feelings manifest in different ways depending on the age of the children. This book explores the story of a sister and a brother who love watching a mama bird care for her babies until the unthinkable happens-the mother bird dies. The reader is taken on a journey through various stages of emotions associated with grief.
It ends, however, with baby birds learning to fly, and the promise of hope that is found in new beginnings.
With hope-filled language featured in the layered-text format, our desire is that each reader will discover it's okay to have the feelings he or she is having and that, each new day holds (italic) healing, hope, and promise.
- GenresChildrens
32 pages, Hardcover
Published October 3, 2022
About the author
Michelle Medlock Adams
127 books72 followersMichelle Medlock Adams is a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist, earning top honors from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Hoosier State Press Association.
Author of over 100 books with close to 4 million books sold, Michelle is also a New York Times Bestselling ghostwriter and has won more than 90 industry awards for her own journalistic endeavors, including the prestigious Golden Scroll for Best Children’s Book in 2020, 2019 and 2018 for “How Much Does God Love You?” “Dinosaur Devotions” and “My First Day of School”. And, over the past three years, she has added several first place honors from the Christian Market Book Awards, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, and the Illumination Book Awards in multiple categories.
Since graduating with a journalism degree from Indiana University, Michelle has written more than 1,700 articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites; acted as a stringer for the Associated Press; written for a worldwide ministry; hosted “Joy In Our Town” for the Trinity Broadcasting Network; blogged twice weekly for Guideposts from 2013 to 2015; written a weekly column for a Midwest newspaper; served as an adjunct professor at Taylor University four different years; and acted as President of Platinum Literary Services, a premier full-service literary firm for five years. Today, she runs her own children's book imprint--Wren & Bear Books--an imprint of End Game Press.
Michelle is celebrating the recent release of her books, "Dachshund Through the Snow," "Fly High," "Our God is Bigger Than That!," and "Springtime for Your Spirit."
Michelle is married to her high school sweetheart, Jeff, and they have two daughters, Abby and Allyson, two sons-in-law, four granddaughters and two grandsons. She and Jeff share their home in Southern Indiana with two miniature dachshunds and two spoiled cats. When not writing or teaching writing, Michelle enjoys bass fishing, cheering on Indiana University sports teams and the Chicago Cubbies, and all things leopard print.
You can learn more about Michelle at www.michellemedlockadams.com and by following her @INwritergirl on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest.
Author of over 100 books with close to 4 million books sold, Michelle is also a New York Times Bestselling ghostwriter and has won more than 90 industry awards for her own journalistic endeavors, including the prestigious Golden Scroll for Best Children’s Book in 2020, 2019 and 2018 for “How Much Does God Love You?” “Dinosaur Devotions” and “My First Day of School”. And, over the past three years, she has added several first place honors from the Christian Market Book Awards, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, and the Illumination Book Awards in multiple categories.
Since graduating with a journalism degree from Indiana University, Michelle has written more than 1,700 articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites; acted as a stringer for the Associated Press; written for a worldwide ministry; hosted “Joy In Our Town” for the Trinity Broadcasting Network; blogged twice weekly for Guideposts from 2013 to 2015; written a weekly column for a Midwest newspaper; served as an adjunct professor at Taylor University four different years; and acted as President of Platinum Literary Services, a premier full-service literary firm for five years. Today, she runs her own children's book imprint--Wren & Bear Books--an imprint of End Game Press.
Michelle is celebrating the recent release of her books, "Dachshund Through the Snow," "Fly High," "Our God is Bigger Than That!," and "Springtime for Your Spirit."
Michelle is married to her high school sweetheart, Jeff, and they have two daughters, Abby and Allyson, two sons-in-law, four granddaughters and two grandsons. She and Jeff share their home in Southern Indiana with two miniature dachshunds and two spoiled cats. When not writing or teaching writing, Michelle enjoys bass fishing, cheering on Indiana University sports teams and the Chicago Cubbies, and all things leopard print.
You can learn more about Michelle at www.michellemedlockadams.com and by following her @INwritergirl on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest.
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June 9, 2023
HELPS A CHILD UNDERSTAND AND MOVE THROUGH GRIEF
Flying High eloquently presents the emotion of loss & grief to the young reader. By using birds to address the topic of death and grief, this story softens the setting for an open and healthy discussion. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion questions that presented themselves throughout the book. This is certainly a book that will help children better understand and openly discuss the challenging subject of death. Knowing that faith, hope, and love will always be soaring high above us, is powerful and important message that they will take with them!
Flying High eloquently presents the emotion of loss & grief to the young reader. By using birds to address the topic of death and grief, this story softens the setting for an open and healthy discussion. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion questions that presented themselves throughout the book. This is certainly a book that will help children better understand and openly discuss the challenging subject of death. Knowing that faith, hope, and love will always be soaring high above us, is powerful and important message that they will take with them!
August 12, 2023
This story of a bird that dies shows children the beautiful analogy of how we react when we lose someone we love and the natural stages of grief. It also has wonderful notes for caregivers on talking with children about the stages of grief and the feelings they are experiencing.
August 5, 2025
Wow, this title nailed the concept of grief and loss for grade level kids.
July 9, 2024
4.5 stars
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