Chris Raschka - The Purple Balloon
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When a child becomes aware of his pending death (children tend to know long before the rest of us even want to consider it), and is given the opportunity to draw his feelings, he will often draw a blue or purple balloon, released and unencumbered, on its way upward. Health-care professionals have discovered that this is true, regardless of a childs cultural or religious background and researchers believe that this is symbolic of the childs innate knowledge that a part of them will live forever. . . .
In disarmingly simple and direct language, accompanied by evocative potato print illustrations, Raschka in conjunction with Childrens Hospice International (CHI), creates a moving, sensitive book that is also a phenomenally useful tool to talk about death. The message of the book is clear: talking about dying is hard, dying is harder, but there are many people in your life who can help.
Childrens Hospice International (CHI), a nonprofit organization founded in 1983, is paving the way for the establishment of childrens hospice and related services worldwide.
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Childrens Hospice International
1101 King Street, Suite 360
Alexandria, VA 22314
chionline.org Childrens Hospice International (CHI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring medical, psychological, social, and spiritual support to all children with life-threatening conditions and their families by providing a network of resources and care.
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Copyright 2007 by Chris Raschka
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
SCHWARTZ & WADE BOOKS and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Raschka, Christopher.
The purple balloon / Chris Raschka. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Easy-to-read text reveals that dying is hard work, for the old and especially the young, and how good it is that so many people help when a person dies, from medical staff to clergy and friends to family members.
ISBN: 978-0-375-84146-0 (trade)
ISBN: 978-0-375-94259-4 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 978-0-307-98363-3 (ebook)
[1. DeathFiction. 2.
Terminally illFiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R1814Pur 2007
[E]dc22
2006023725
The text of this book is set in Archetype.
The illustrations are potato and wood prints rendered in watercolor paint. v3.1 
For my father
C.R.
a note about this story
When a child becomes aware of his or her pending death and is given the opportunity to draw your feelings, he or she will often draw a blue or purple balloon, released and floating free. Health care professionals have discovered that this is true regardless of a childs cultural or religious background, and researchers believe that it demonstrates the childs innate knowledge that a part of him or her will live forever. I first heard this moving and fascinating anecdote from the psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kbler-Ross. It has affected me ever since.
Ann Armstrong-Dailey, Founding Director and CEO, Childrens Hospice International
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No one likes to talk about dying. Its hard work. 
Dying is hard work. 
Many people do what they can to make dying not so hard.Nurses, doctors, hospice care workers.
Clergy, friends, neighbors.
Brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, sons and daughters.
Everyone helps 
when someone dies. 
When someone dies, its good to have a family. And its good to have friends. 
They help you feel better. 
There is only one thing harder to talk about than someone old dying 
someone young dying. Just as many people need to help.
Neighbors and friends and classmates. Hospice care workers, and nurses and doctors and therapists. 
Of course, mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and uncles and aunts and cousins and grandparents. 
All listening or talking, sitting or holding, being noisy or being quiet. 
Good help makes dying less hard. 
Good help makes leaving easier.
Treat your sick friend the same as you treat your other friends:
Dont make a big deal of your friends illness, even if he or she looks or acts different.
Let your friend know youre there if he or she needs someone to talk to or needs help.
Keep in touch if a friend or classmate is absent from school or in the hospital:
Send a card or an e-mail.
Treat your sick friend the same as you treat your other friends:
Dont make a big deal of your friends illness, even if he or she looks or acts different.
Let your friend know youre there if he or she needs someone to talk to or needs help.
Keep in touch if a friend or classmate is absent from school or in the hospital:
Send a card or an e-mail.
Send a favorite book. Visit if you can.
Keep your friend informed about whats going on in school, with other friends, etc., including him or her in as many ways as you can. Chris Raschka was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his illustration of Norton Justers The Hello, Goodbye Window. He is also the illustrator of Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More, by Jack Prelutsky, and the author and illustrator of Yo! Yes?, a Caldecott Honor Book. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.
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