After the sud­den death of her 7‑year-old daugh­ter, Bar­bara Meis­lin searched for answers to dif­fi­cult ques­tions by writ­ing song lyrics. Walk­ing to her mail­box each day, an image of a let­ter con­tain­ing all of the answers regard­ing the loss of her child float­ed in her mind but she was unable to turn it into lyrics. One day, the mail­box was stolen and even­tu­al­ly the paint­ed rain­bow that she and anoth­er daugh­ter put in its place also dis­ap­peared. Feel­ing as though some­one had stolen her hope, she recount­ed the sto­ry to her friend Rab­bi Natan Segal. Segal replied, ​“Pur­ple Lady, no one can ever steal your rain­bow.” With those words, her hope was renewed, and she was final­ly able to write the lyrics that had elud­ed her. Those lyrics became this book. Helen Webber’s vibrant illus­tra­tions are a beau­ti­ful com­ple­ment to Meislin’s sto­ry of hope and faith. The rhyming text describes the loss of a girl’s mail­box and the rain­bow put in its place. She nev­er los­es hope once she real­izes that the rain­bow in her heart can nev­er be tak­en away. Meis­lin, known as the ​“Pur­ple Lady” because of her love of pur­ple, is donat­ing the pro­ceeds of this book to Neve Shalom/​Wahat al-Salam (The Oasis of Peace) in Israel and to oth­er char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tions that ben­e­fit chil­dren. Includ­ed in the book is an audio CD of the Pur­ple Lady singing ​“No One Can Ever Steal Your Rain­bow” plus the lyrics and sheet music. For read­ers 9 – 11.