Featured in the New York Times article "Helping a Child Navigate Grief? Open a Picture Book"Selected for the Children's Book Council's Spring 2026 Showcase: The Heart Remembers-Stories of Loss & GriefSelected for the Children Book Council's Summer 2024 Showcase: Imagination Celebration"Writer Matthew Burgess and illustrator Josh Cochran use buoyant language and joyful colors to show a young boy's love for his dead grandmother and his determination to get a letter delivered to her. Any parent who has ever had a child rush up to explain the minutiae of, say, a newly built Lego spaceship will recognize the tremendous excitement, the wild imaginativeness, of the boy as he explains how he will dispatch his letter via a team of skydivers... and, and!-as two pages open out in a gatefold, the whole extravagant vision bursts into view."
Wall Street Journal

? “The prose is spare yet poignant, deftly crafting a picture of all the little ways G.G. was special to Sylvester... Vivid illustrations rendered in bold marker strokes capture the story’s varied moods, including a brightly colored gatefold that opens to an exuberant, marvelously detailed depiction of Sylvester’s grand ideas, followed by pages in somber shades after Sylvester realizes his plans won’t work. This poignant journey through grief resolves on an uplifting note as Sylvester receives a sign that his message got through after all, and he decides to pursue a new skill to honor G.G.’s legacy. VERDICT: Simultaneously comforting and heartbreaking, this is a beautiful ode to imagination, determination, and the uniquely precious relationship between a grandparent and grandchild.”
School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

? "How does one commune with the dearly departed? Although listeners won’t know the nature of young Sylvester’s grandmother’s absence until they piece together context clues, this is the matter the child is working out... Poet Burgess and artist Cochran—the team that produced Drawing on Walls (2020)—expertly capture an imaginative child’s perspective and logic with lovely, alliterative language and wordless spreads rendered in brilliant colors and markerlike scrawls. A marvelous double gatefold portrays the entire journey... A nuanced celebration of the lasting joy that intergenerational friendship inspires."
Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

? "At the beginning of the book, Sylvester is writing a letter to the 'greatest Grandma'. His vivid and exuberant illustrations show what he would want to tell his special grandmother if he could... Gradually we begin to understand that Sylvester's grandmother is dead and that is the reason that he is having such difficulty getting his letter to her. The illustrations are reflective of Sylvester's imagination and fill the pages with color and swoopy exuberance... A big 'I Love You' covers part of the last page. The message got through."
Youth Services Book Review, STARRED REVIEW