The princess in the kitchen garden Book

What a sad and depressing book. I really felt horrible for the young characters in this book, and Hannah and her brother Matthew were left to handle their grief of losing their mother after their father falls into a deep depression. I think I found this book to be so upsetting because it is completely realistic- sometimes tragedy is so hard to cope with for adults and children are left to figure it out for themselves. I loved the images of this picture book and how they were so subtle in design but played such a great part in the story.