For the first time in Vietnam, a children book talks about tragedies, even deaths, in an uncompromising style and yet with such compassionate love. The writer’s Vietnamese peers themselves have sung the work as another. The little Prince. The pkot begins with a birth of a name as the most beautiful sound on earth and ends under a starry, sparkding sky. It explains in the process why it hurts when someone heat and dear to us is gone- because the sky in our hearts has beenripped apart. Each chapter is a different metaphor. There is the metaphor about music as the eternal mother. There is the lesson about the finger as the pound symbol of a whole body. And there is the smile of the garden- achild only growns by going through his or her little world with all the senses wide open not just the eyes...

The book has been unanimously praised since its first publication in 2002. The author: who was painter professionally, because a celebrated writer overnight. Written for children, its been the children book most read by grown-ups ever since.