![]() ![]() ![]() She asks her father if he'll be able to hear her when he's in heaven. The journal entries include conversations with her father and his encouragement that she'll keep on writing and reading her stories to him, even when he's in heaven. ![]() The young girl also shares her prayers, her faith, her growing lists, and challenging questions, like the understandable question surrounding her fear that she did something wrong to cause her father's illness. The story is told in the first person from Renee's perspective in a collection of journal entries where Renee records the stages of her father's illness and the growing fears she experiences. Chan's children's story, Can You Hear Me?, traces a young girl's journey through her father's illness and death. Writing in her journal is her only solace and she keeps lists of what she's thankful for. ![]() At first, Renee doesn't want to tell anyone about her father's illness, not even her best friend. When young Renee learns her father has cancer, she goes through a wide range of emotions from fear and disbelief to intense sadness, especially as her father's condition worsens and he eventually dies. Cancer has a way of infiltrating the lives of so many families. Losing a loved one is difficult at any age. Reviewed By Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite ![]()
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