Agh, oh my god. So many conflicting feelings about such a tiny story. ( )

It's a testament to the simple sweetness and heartbreaking sadness of this book that I can't even look at the cover without starting to cry. Someone put it on display in the bookstore, and it actually hurts me to walk past it. That's a good read. ( )

This is the story of an old man who misses, and loves, his dearly departed wife. While visiting her grave site he is visited by her specter and suffers a heart attack. This is a sweet story, very well drawn, but it fails with my needs for graphic novels, since I feel like they are a way to expose younger children to difficult material and keep struggling readers involved in classroom instruction (on things like literary conventions) that may be at their maturity level if not their reading level. Graphic novels should also be a less intimidating approach to reading for reluctant readers, but this book, while cute, does not contain enough words or substance to really be useful for these purposes. Although this is a good book to browse and available to any reading level, I wouldn't place it in a library unless it were gifted or the library had ample funds or devoted fans. ( )