Puff gives his whole heart and soul to one special friend…One day, as you can see at the end of this book, a new and special friend comes to Honalee…In this way Puff and Jackie’s friendship continues through new children like you.” “Puff has appeared to me both childlike and wise, a king but also a willing follower of just about any bright spirit that inspired him. in a beautiful, bestselling picture book filled with enchantment. More than 40 years after ‘Puff’…was released, this volume. This storybook's art is beautiful but relatively simple, which is great for children and adults alike.īeautifully illustrated. Even though death, itself, may be sad this story and it's tale of love and the wonders of such is NOT sad. And while I get now why my dad said it was so sad, I still disagree.

Jackie Paper shows Puff the curious world of humans, through gifts that seem strange to an adult but are perfect for a child and Puff shows him the world through his eyes. and I recall telling him that it wasn't sad, it was beautiful. My father asked me when I was about five or six why I loved this so much, sighting that it was pretty sad for a children's song. This version came with a CD which my ex then learned to play and sing on the guitar *happy sigh* and if nothing else positive came of that relationship I will take that as the signifier of why I needed to have been in that relationship. My nephew, at the age of two years and also my ex's daughter at five. I have had the blessing of being the first person to sing this storybook to two different blonde munchkins. I think everyone is familiar with this one, I don't know that I need to go into what this is all about. I remember my tone-deaf father singing me this song, I remember the lilt of his imperfect voice, the feel of his hand running through my hair, EVERYTHING!

Nothing, to this day, brings instant childhood nostalgia to my eyes quite like this story/song. Oh man, I can't believe I never wrote a review for this one! This was my absolute FAVOURITE childhood story.

Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow