Lifetimes, by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen, Belitha Press, 1983一如這書的全名，《Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes in Between - A Beautiful Way to Explain Life and Death to Children》，作者就是要跟孩子解釋生死，而他說得還真是好（雖然封面很難吸引人）：
There is a beginning
and an ending for everything
that is alive.
In between is living.
...
說故事技巧：
可以把這書和The Dead Bird搭配著說。
Bryan Mellonie, 1929-
Robert Ingpen, 1936- , 1986和同為澳洲人的Patricia Wrightson分別獲得安徒生寫作及插畫獎，是澳洲第一人。