Just What to Do

SLJ Best Books of the Year
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
ALSC 2025 Children’s Notable List Book

★ “Handling death and grief in a gentle and tender manner, Lukoff’s newest picture book explores the innate need many of us have to fix the problems of the ones we love the most…[This is] a beautiful story that should be sitting on the shelves of school counselors and child therapists everywhere.” – School Library Journal, starred review

“Both Newbery Honoree Lukoff’s text and Tahboub’s illustrations convey a stillness that will make this often-difficult topic comprehensible to a young audience…This book is the perfect complement to Cori Doerrfeld’s The Rabbit Listened.” – Kirkus<em data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”><em data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”><em data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”><em data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>