| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 13 min.)) : sd., col. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Andy T. Jones. |
| Performer |
Narrators: Nick Mondelli, Stephanie Willing, Angie Kane. |
| Summary |
People fear death (apparently just a tiny bit less than public speaking). We don't know how to talk about it, especially to children, and we're afraid to bring it up for fear of making people sadder. Yet children, especially, have questions, and this incredibly gentle and surprisingly light story is full of both comfort and vividly imagined answers. The first one gives the story its title: A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a sister he's never met because she died before he was born. The sister in the faded photograph on the wall. So that night he asks his mother what death is like and she tells him, It's like dreaming, only bigger. That's lovely, but he still has questions, which it turns out his sister can answer! On a dreamy, carefree adventure they ride their bikes together, (not always on the ground), visiting places that were special to her when she was alive. And she talks to him in the older sister, teasing, straightforward, loving way that is exactly what he needs. (It turns out that death is not the only thing that can be Bigger Than a Dream.) |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Death -- Juvenile fiction.
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Death -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Andy T., film director.
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Aerts, Jef, 1972- author.
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Mondelli, Nicholas, narrator.
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Kane, Angie, narrator.
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Willing, Stephanie, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Music No. |
MWT13815142 |
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