Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death

After a water bug suddenly leaves her pond and is transformed into a dragonfly, her friends’ questions about such departures are like those children ask when someone dies.

Waterbugs and Dragonflies is a graceful fable written by Doris Stickney who sought a meaningful way to explain to neighborhood children the death of a five-year-old friend. The small book is beautifully illustrtated by artist Gloria Ortiz Hernandez.