ABSTRACT
Children often talk about their experience in an honest and striking way. They seek to make their personal knowledge pertinent to the matter in hand. This is especially noticeable when exploring something like death. In the example that follows, children in a primary class were responding to a story about a widow and her pet dog, John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat (Wagner, 1977). Everything appears cosy and secure until a black cat takes to visiting the house where the widow, Rose, lives with her dog. It is a story that deals with loss and change, with jealousy and possessiveness.
