The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Alvarez, Julia

Where Do They Go?

24 pp. | Seven Stories | November, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60980-670-5 $16.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sabra Field. For children grappling with their emotions surrounding death, poetic questions and responses have a quietly reassuring tone as the unnamed narrator speaks of possibilities, not answers: "I catch just a glance / in the hills' quiet stillness, in a storm's dark advance." Elegant woodcuts show a diverse group of children and use serene landscapes, white silhouettes, cloud formations, etc., as palpable but open-ended visual references to the dead.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt