My Best Friend

A mysterious shadow walks the corridors. It goes from room to room, and sometimes leaves with someone in its arms, taking them to the land of dreams. Until one day a patient at the hospital—a little boy—speaks to the shadow, offering it a drink of water. The boy is fearful at first, but as he gets to know the shadow through their conversations, he realizes that she has feelings of her own. So begins a great friendship between an unlikely pair: a little boy, and Death.This beautiful story addresses the difficult subject of death for young readers. It won the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature in it’s original French (Ma meilleure amie, les Éditions Québec Amérique, 2007) as well as the Grand Prix Illustration du Concours Lux 2008 and the Prix Alvine-Bélisle 2008. It is now available in English for the first time.