![]() We Are in a Book! (the title’s jaunty exclamation point comes to seem like a taunt) smacks kids right in the face with that nothingness, shows them grotesquely-in the desperate prayers and mad gesticulations of a cartoon elephant-that death is to be feared because the void awaits us all. But those of us who live without the solace of belief in the afterlife (and who don’t offer our children that solace, either) instead find ourselves eyes wide open in bed, imagining … nothing. One major benefit of religion is that it offers an alternative to the void, something rather than nothing. I recently watched my middle child awaken to the realization that death is the void, and it was awful and disturbing to see his world rocked. It is our fear of the void-the idea of nothingness. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to frighten anyone. ![]() Leonardo is truly a terrible monster-terrible at being a monster that is. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. ![]() What defines the human consciousness of death? It is not the fear of pain: Animals certainly can fear pain. Hyperion Book CH, Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages. It is genuinely freaky in its simple, direct depiction of death. Yet We Are in a Book! is far more moving-and terrifying-than you might expect a children’s book to be. ![]()
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