EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS
By Deborah Wiles
Harcourt, 2005
Category: Middle-grade novel
This is one of my all-time favorite works of fiction. I have read EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS several times now and never, not once, have I done it without crying. I can actually feel my heart break as I read. But it is the sort of heartbreak that is mostly healed by the end of the story, leaving only the tiniest scar to remind me of this beautiful novel and the way it has touched me.
EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS is the story of Comfort Snowberger, “explorer, recipe tester and funeral reporter”. As a daughter of the Snowberger Funeral Home Empire, Comfort knows death. But when death hits closer than ever before, and at the same time as her best-friendship with Declaration Johnson hits a rocky patch, Comfort must come to terms with an entirely new level of grief.
This is an incredibly good book … do read it if you can!