(Bungling) Talking about death to a three-year old

It was bound to happen at some point.  Dudelet had picked out a book called “Good Days and Bad Days” and we’d reached page three.
“There are happy days,” I read, “and sad days.”
“Why is the little boy sad?”  I looked more closely at the picture illustrating ’sad days’.  In a lush green landscape, a small [...]