by Eion Colfer
illustrated by Chris Judge
2023
40 pages
ISBN: 9781536231076
When Erin falls ill and has to go to the hospital, she is sad. She finds joy in searching the skies from her hospital window. She remembers watching for "cloud babies" with her parents and seeing fantastical things in the clouds. Each cloud looks like an animal and they are her cloud babies.
She shows the other sick kids how to find them. When Erin gets better, she is excited to be going home, but home and school are different than before. She's been gone so long, she feels she has nothing in common with the other kids. Through compassion and patience, her parents, her teacher and her classmates make Erin feel "at home."
Cloud Babies is an empathetic story of a sick child and how she handles her lengthy hospital stay. After missing months of school, it's difficult for a child to transition into the "normal."
Ages 4 and up.
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