Hope for the Flowers

Hope's theme of life and death, moving through seeming loss to a new and more beautiful existence, touches the hearts of millions of people. Hope for the Flowers, with its tale of caterpillar heroes Stripe and Yellow, brings comfort to young and old, lovers, husbands and wives. It's a book to learn to read together or to console those who are dying or grieving. In the story, Stripe and Yellow want something more from life than eating and growing bigger. They get caught up in a caterpillar pillar, a squirming mass of bodies each determined to reach a top so far away it can't be seen. Finally disillusioned, they discover that the way for the caterpillars to find what they really yearn for—who they are—is to enter the cocoon and ... risk for the butterfly.