Dancing on the Moon

Provides Comfort and Reassurance

Dancing on the Moon is a children’s picture book of profound beauty and insight into the childish psyche.

First-time author Janice Roper’s daughter was not yet three years old when her baby brother died. Janice watched her daughter climb onto her father’s lap and wipe his tears away. When she tried to explain that her brother had gone to heaven, her daughter replied: “I’m going to get him back!”

Dancing on the Moon is an empowering story for the powerless experience that everyone, young and old, will eventually face — the death of a loved one.

In the story, Carly finds her brother on the moon and three times she asks him to come back with her. He never says no. By the end, Carly realizes that he will always be with her — but in a different way. He will be in her heart.

With soothing rhymes and captivating illustrations, Dancing on the Moon will comfort and reassure both parents and children alike that — even when you lose someone —– the love lives within you forever.

Published by SIDS-ES with funding from the University of Maryland Center for Infant and Child Loss. All profits will go to grief support and information organizations.