Borders are material and people made. Borders are constructed and negotiated as humans and environments interact. These four new texts evoke and challenge the border between life and death. The young and adolescent characters deal with the death of family members, a pet, and a friend. The books show how characters observe, experience, commemorate, and, in one case, defy crossing the border between life and death. These books also defy the representation of death in contemporary children’s literature by recasting death and grieving as nuanced, complex, and diverse. Dekko, Espen. Paws and Edward. Illustrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen, Kids Can, 2019. 34 pp. $18.99 hc. ISBN 9781525301353. James, Matt. The Funeral. Groundwood Books, 2018. 40 pp. $18.95 hc. ISBN 9781554989089. Quan, Betty. Grandmother’s Visit. Illustrated by Carmen Mok, Groundwood Books, 2018. 32 pp. $17.95 hc. ISBN 9781554989546. Young, Cheyanne. The Last Wish of Sasha Cade. Kids Can, 2018. 320 pp. $12.99 pb. ISBN 9781525301407. Reviews 274 Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 11.2 (2019) Representing Death in Children’s Literature: Border Crossings —Maria José Botelho and Marsha Jing-Ji Liaw