Recommended Reading

Children’s Grief (for children)

• I Know I Made It Happen
• The Fall of Freddie The Leaf
• The Secret Places
• Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
• Annie and the Sand Dobbies: A Story about Death for Children and Their Parents
• Losing Uncle Tim
• Mundy, M. Sad Isn’t Bad
• The Kids’ Book about Death and Dying: By and for Kids
• The Jester Has Lost His Jingle
• Summerland, a Story about Death and Hope
• Help Me Say Goodbye
• A Taste of Blackberries
• The Empty Place
• The Snowman
• Healing your Grieving Heart for Kids

Grieving Children (for adult caregivers)

• Recovering from the Loss of a Sibling
• Grief in Children
• The Grieving Child
• Talking About Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child Jackson, Edgar. Telling Children about Death
• Tell Me, Pap: A Family Book for Children’s Questions About Death and Funerals
• Keys to Helping Children Deal with Death and Grief
• Sad But OK: My Daddy Died Today: A Child’s View of Death
• On Children and Death
• Rosen, H. Unspoken Grief: Coping With Childhood Sibling Loss
• How Do We Tell The Children?
• Sibling Grief: How Parents can Help the Child Whose Brother or Sister has Died
• Never Too Young To Know
• Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners
• A Child’s View of Grief
• Helping Children Cope with Grief
• Healing the Bereaved Child
• Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies

Children’s Grief (Age 2-6)

• Thumpy’s Story: A Story of Love and Grief Shared by Thumpy, the Bunny
• Daddy’s Chair
• I Heard Your Mommy Died
• I Heard Your Daddy Died
• Water Bugs and Dragonflies
• The Tenth Good Thing about Barney

Children’s Grief (Age 6-10)

• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
• The Brightest Star
• Geranium Morning
• A Quilt For Elizabeth

Children’s Grief (Age 10-16)

• Tiger Eyes
• Coping with Grief
• Farley, C. The Garden is Doing Fine
• Teenagers Face to Face with Bereavement
• Shira: A Legacy of Courage
• There is a Rainbow Behind Every Dark Cloud
• How It Feels When a Parent Dies
• Learning to Say Good-bye: When a Parent Dies
• There Are Two Kinds of Terrible
• Bridge to Terabithia

Death of a Sibling or a Friend

• Dusty Was My Friend: Coming to Terms with Loss
• I Had a Friend Named Peter: Talking to Children About the Death of a Friend
• When a Friend Dies (for a teenager)
• Last Week My Brother Anthony Died
• A Summer to Die (for a teenager)
• The Empty Place

Am I Still a Big Sister?

• Losing Someone You Love: When a Brother or Sister Dies (for a teenager)

Death of a Spouse Widow

• Why Her Why Now: A Man’s Journey through Love and Death and Grief
• I’m Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal
• When A Life Mate Dies: Stories of Love, Loss and Healing Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed
• Doors Open, Doors Close: Widows, Grieving, and Growing
• Survival Handbook for Widows

Death of a Parent

• Midlife Orphan: Facing Life’s Changes now that your Parents are Gone
• The Orphaned Adult: Confronting the Death of a Parent
• Recovering From the Loss of a Parent
• Losing a Parent: A Personal Guide
• When Parents Die

Adult Grief

• How We Grieve: Relearning the World
• Life is Goodbye. Life is Hello: Grieving Well Through all Losses
• The Path through Grief: A Practical Guide
• Grief’s Courageous Journey: A Workbook
• How to Survive the Loss of a Love
• Living with Grief after Sudden Loss
• Living When a Loved One Has Died
• Concerning Death
• The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Step by Step Program for Moving Beyond Loss
• On Death and Dying
• No Time for Goodbyes (Sudden Loss)
• Don’t Take My Grief Away From Me
• Lessons of Loss: A Guide to Coping  Happiness is an Inside Job
• How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
• The Healing Journey through Grief: Your Journal for Reflection and Recovery
• Stepping Stones to Grief Recovery
• Surviving Grief and Learning to Live Again
• Hope for the Bereaved
• Peace, Love & Healing
• A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing after the Death of a Loved One
• The Courage to Grieve
• You Don’t Have to Suffer
• Good Grief
• Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal
• Necessary Losses

Death of a Child

• A Child Dies: A Portrait of Family Grief
• When the Bough Breaks: Forever after the Death of a Son or Daughter
• The Ultimate Loss: Coping with the Death of a Child
• Children Mourning, Mourning Children
• Recovering From the Loss of a Child
• After The Death of a Child: Living With Loss through the Years
• Beyond Endurance: When a Child Dies
• Surviving the Death of a Child
• Parental Loss of a Child
• The Worst Loss: How Families Heal From the Death of a Child
• The Bereaved Parent
• Grieving the Death of a Friend
• Lament for a Son

Men and Grief

• A Look in the Mirror: A Handbook for Widowers
• Widower
• Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing
• What Helped Me When My Loved One Died
• When a Man Faces Grief: When a Man you Know is Grieving
• Men and Grief: A Guide for Men Surviving the Death of a Loved One

Holiday Grief

• Helping the Bereaved
• Celebrate the Holidays

Grief Periodicals

• Journeys, Hospice Foundation of America monthly newsletter
• Thanatos magazine
• Bereavement Magazine Grief Digest, Centering Corporation
• Death Studies Journal

Death of a Grandparent

• Nonna
• Where the Balloons Go
• The Garden Angel
• Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
• Grandpa’s Berries
• Goodbye Grandpa
• The Butterfly Bush
• My Granddad Died Today
• Why Did Grandpa Die? A Book about Death
• Animal Crackers
• Saying Good-Bye to Grandma

Professional Reading

• List Death in the Family
• Helping the Bereaved: Therapeutic Interventions For Children, Adolescents and Adults
• Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges and Strategies for Practice
• Life & Loss
• Re-Membering Lives
• The Family in Mourning  Traumatic Grief: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
• Healing Grief
• Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief
• How to Design and Facilitate Grief Support Groups
• Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss
• Treatment of Complicated Mourning
• Families Facing Death: Family Dynamics of Terminal Illness
• Grief: The Mourning After
• Shapiro, E.R. Grief as a Family Process: A Development Approach to Clinical Practice
• Sprang, G. & McNeil, J. The Many Faces of Bereavement: The Nature and Treatment of Natural, Traumatic, and Stigmatized Grief
• Handbook of Bereavement Research
• Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family
• Dying: Facing the Facts
• How to Start and Lead a Bereavement Support Group Grief
• Counseling and Grief Therapy

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