SuitabookDillon's rocking bear invisibility chair
R. J. R. Rockwood
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in afterwards if a child has personal experience of bereavement. Let them set the pace and distinguish the story’s supernatural events from their own beliefs.
- Themes
- Grief after a friend’s death: Daren is killed in a road accident, and Dillon continues to miss his friend even as he comes to terms with grief. The outline makes grief and longing central, but does not show how the full story develops or resolves them.
- Spiritual experiences: Dillon’s chair enables him to leave his body, become invisible, pass through solid objects and communicate with spirits. These experiences are part of the story’s premise; their wider significance or relation to spiritual beliefs is not clear.
- Worth knowing
- A friend is killed when a tractor is driven into the road and struck by a truck. Dillon’s grief and missing his friend remain part of the story after he communicates with the spirit.