Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One: A Guide for Grownups by William C. Kroen --
Dr. William Kroen offers sound advice, comfort and compassion to any adult helping a child cope with death. Weaving in anecdotes about real children and their families, he explains how children from infancy through age 18 perceive and react to death and offers suggestions for how to respond to children at different ages and stages. Specific strategies are offered to guide and support them through the grieving process.
Healing Your Grieving Heart For Kids : 100 Practical Ideas: Simple Advice and Activities for Children After a Death by Alan D. Wolfelt
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. See also, Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens and Healing Your Grieving Heart.
Sometimes Bad Things Happen by Ellen Jackson --
The Grieving Child : A Parent's Guide by Helen Fitzgerald
Children Also Grieve : Talking About Death and Healing by Linda Goldman
The Goodbye Boat by Mary Joslin
Saying goodbye to someone you love is always hard. Saying goodbye when someone you love dies is perhaps the hardest thing of all. This book explores the pain and grief of saying goodbye in the simplest of words and images and offers hope that the sadness will ease and that death is not the end. A wonderful discussion starter, this book will be a helpful tool for parents and educators seeking to guide young children through the painful process of loss.
What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? by Trevor Romain
When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide To Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Don't Despair on Thursdays! : The Children's Grief-Management Book by Adolph Moser
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf : A Story of Life for All Ages by Leo Buscaglia
Where Do People Go When They Die? By Mindy Avra Portnoy
When Good-Bye Is Forever by Lois Rock
When People Die by Pete Sanders and Steve Myers
Grandma's Purple Flowers by Adjoa J. Burrowes
The narrator's favorite Grandma lives through the park and down the hill. On the way to visit her, the little girl picks purple flowers -- Grandma's favorite. One day, when the girl knocks on Grandma's door, Grandma moves slowly and is too tired to play. That night, she passes away. Throughout winter, the little girl misses her terribly. But when spring arrives, the sight of purple flowers she and her grandmother planted in the garden makes her smile again.
Wishes For One More Day by Melanie Joy Pastor
Remembering Mrs. Rossi by Amy Hest
Although she loves her father, their home in New York City, and third-grade teacher Miss Meadows, Annie misses her mother who died recently. Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother. When Mrs. Rossi died suddenly, she left not only Annie but also a classfull of students - who pour out their hearts in a scrapbook Annie will treasure forever. With tenderness and humor, Amy Hest reveals the struggles of a father and daughter as they forge a new life together.
Is Grandpa Wearing A Suit? by Amelie Fried
In this touching and beautifully illustrated book, children will learn about death alongside Bruno, whose grandfather passes away. Throughout the narrative, Bruno's emotions mature from confusion, anger, and loneliness to acceptance. Experiencing the bewilderment that often accompanies the death of a loved one, Bruno asks, "Is Grandpa just sleeping? Is he in a grave or in heaven? Why did he leave without saying goodbye? "With humor and delicacy, this poignant story portrays the complexity of losing a friend and relative and teaches children that in death lies a beauty and depth to life.
Edward’s Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
Berenstain Bears Lose A Friend by Jan and Stan Berenstain
Sister Bear loves taking care of her pet goldfish, Goldie. Sister feeds Goldie every morning and evening, cleans out her tank, and even gets her a beautiful fishbowl castle! But when Papa and Mama find Goldie floating belly-up in her tank, they worry about how Sister will feel. How will the Bear family cope with the loss of Goldie, the best goldfish in the world?
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