How do you explain death to a young child? This simple metaphor engages the reader with little Max who despite special challenges is a very happy caterpillar. One day when little Max doesn't feel well his Mom wraps him in a blanket she calls his cocoon. When it is discovered that Max is gone everyone becomes sad. But Max is not really gone because Max the happy caterpillar has become Max the happy butterfly. | Max The Happy Caterpillar by Kathy Archibald Anderson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters