The hare knelt beside the blackbird and said, "She is dead." "Dead?" asked the frog. "What is that?" The hare pointed up to the sky. On an autumn day, the frog finds a motionless blackbird. "She is sleeping," says the piglet. "She looks kind of sick," the duck thinks. "She is dead," the hare concludes. The four friends organize a funeral for the blackbird, and after a quiet moment of mourning, they start to play and laugh joyfully until the sun sets. This picture book offers very young children an approach to the phenomenon of death. It shows what death means and at the same time how beautiful life can be.