I'll See You in My Dreams

Mavis Jukes. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-375-81518-8

Strong, centered and free from fear, a girl imagines herself as a skywriter bidding farewell to her dying uncle, a former pilot, in I'll See You in My Dreams (1993) by Mavis Jukes, illus. by Stacey Schuett an unsentimental look at the rituals that attend the passage of life. (Mar.)

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