If you feel like you're losing everything, remember that the trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come. Here is a simple and lovely illustrated children's book that deals with death and grief and our attempts at making sense of it all, told through the metaphor of a tree losing its leaves as the seasons shift and change.

The Last Leaf is an honest, simple story told about the life cycle, as explained through the four seasonal changes and narrated from the perspective of one single leaf on a tree. While everybody works through their own emotions and experiences differently, The Last Leaf may help guide both child and adult at they embark on the first steps of their journey to coping, understanding, and healing.

Story by S. Deborah Desser, with illustrations by Althéa Botha. 34 pages. Hardcover, 2021.