Gone

**2026 WINNER - PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, NSW LITERARY AWARDS
2026 WINNER - ABDA BEST DESIGNED CHILDREN'S BOOK
2026 CBCA NOTABLE - PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR

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An honest and beautiful guide for curious children about life's biggest mystery. 

_My fluttering, chirping, hopping bird was gone.
_Its body was still there, a silent, feathery shape, but all life had left it. 

Long or short, every life on earth comes to an end some day.
But what happens when we die?