A review by toebean5
The Boy and the Gorilla by Jackie Azúa Kramer

3.0

Don't mind me- just over here sobbing about a picture book. First off, really lovely, different illustrations- like inky watercolors. Beautiful. Secondly, there's a young boy with a recently deceased mom, and there are no metaphors or euphemisms used by the gorilla to explain it. Which is wonderful. "A person's body stops working," he says. We all die, he concedes. But not in a depressing way, if that's possible. I don't think this is one I would pull out to read for your average kiddo, but I think it might be a good one for any child who has lost a parent and is going through it.