Title: Oh No, Where Did He Go?
Subtitle: Understanding how children handle death and loss
Author: Kay E. Thomson
Illustrator: Macey K. Donley
Publisher: Xulon Press Elite
ISBN: 978-1-6628-2170-7
Pages: 23
Genre: Illustrated Children’s Story / Grievance / Self-Help / Christian
Synopsis
Oh No, Where Did He Go? takes its listeners through the process of losing someone very special to them. It shows the mix of emotions that children can feel and how to cope with them. JT is the main character, and he finds answers to his questions: Where is Grandpa now, how will I ever find him, and how can he get out of the hole they put the big box in? It is a lesson of love, care, and trust in the God who loves us most.
About the Author
Thomson, who grew up in a Christian home in New Jersey, says that although she has only been a widow for two and a half years, her struggles have allowed her to find God in a whole new way. “We don’t know Jesus is all we need until Jesus is all we have,” she explains. “I was eventually able to put one foot in front of the other and be open to what God had for me next.” God’s plans, she says, were for her to form The Encouragers Group, which is made up of both men and women walking in the tunnel of grief as they learn to encourage each other on their own journey to joy in Christ.
