Helping Hands: Author’s Memory Concreted in Picturebook

Abstract

“I never actually let myself believe that he was not going to make it.”

That’s what author Kathryn Otoshi said when she heard her friend Bret Baumgarten—always so full of life—was fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer. But in 2014, when he died at age 44, Otoshi could at least take some comfort that he had left behind a legacy for his two children—one which she helped make happen.