Key Selling Points

• The butterfly and the rock have always been there for each other...until the day the rock disappears and the butterfly has to learn how to live without its beloved friend.
• This poignant tale addresses what it's like to lose someone you love, through a gentle metaphor, and shows how, even though you might flounder, comfort can be found in the memories that special someone left with you.
• This story was originally written after the death of illustrator Brooke Kerrigan's father, penned for her mother by Kathy Stinson. Kathy and Brooke then realized it was a universal story that they could bring to the page.
• Kathy's moving text combined with Brooke's striking illustrations give this book the feel of a timeless classic that will resonate with anyone who's experienced any kind of loss and provide a good jumping-off point for a discussion about grief or loss with children.
• Kathy Stinson is the author of over 40 books, including The Man with the Violin, a TD Canadian Children's Literature Award winner, and Brooke Kerrigan is the illustrator of numerous books for children, whose work has received an honorable mention from the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design.

The rock was always there...until, one day, it wasn't.

The rock and the butterfly are a perfect fit. The butterfly takes shelter on the steady rock after hours of flittering and fluttering, and the rock loves to hear of the butterfly's adventures after a long day of sitting in one spot. Then one day the rock isn't where it has always been—and the butterfly is alone. It can't find a comfortable place to rest, and it eventually collapses on the ground. When it wakes, the butterfly realizes that it is lying in the exact spot where the rock used to be, and it takes comfort in all that its beloved friend left behind.