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Children Also Grieve: Talking about Death and Healing

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This is the best book I have seen for Children on the topic of grief. It speaks simply and practically on this sensitive subject and is beautifully illustrated. The memory book section was particularly useful as is the guide for adults. A true must have as a resourse to help grieving children!

I am the director of a non-profit agency in Los Angeles working
with children in grief. This is by far the most compassionate, thorough, age appropriate book that I have ever read for children
in grief. I would recommend
this book to any parent, teacher or professional as a guide to
helping children through one of the most difficult time in their lives.
I'd like to see this book in every library as a reference guide
for our most vulnerable children.

As a grief therapist, I found many aspects of children and grief to be covered within this excellent resource. Written to be read by adults to children, each page becomes a valuable spark for healthy discussion about normal feelings such as guilt, fear, shame, and anger. Told through the eyes of Henry, the family dog, ideas for creating a memory book are presented in a workbook format. Reading a page or two with a grieving child each evening would be a caring and educational replacement for bedtime stories, until the child is ready to move on.

A resource chapter for caregivers and a glossary of bereavement terms are included at the end of the book, which provide recommendations for facilitating children's understanding and expressions of their grief. Without a doubt, a secondary benefit is for the caregivers reading to the children, who may not understand for themselves why someone special has died.

This book is highly recommended for school libraries, church libraries, lending libraries in centers for grieving children, and families who are struggling to explain loss to young children.

Grief matters.

As a grief therapist, I found many aspects of children and grief to be covered within this excellent resource. Written to be read by adults to children, each page becomes a valuable spark for healthy discussion about normal feelings such as guilt, fear, shame, and anger. Told through the eyes of Henry, the family dog, ideas for creating a memory book are presented in a workbook format. Reading a page or two with a grieving child each evening would be a caring and educational replacement for bedtime stories, until the child is ready to move on.

A resource chapter for caregivers and a glossary of bereavement terms are included at the end of the book, which provide recommendations for facilitating children's understanding and expressions of their grief. Without a doubt, a secondary benefit is for the caregivers reading to the children, who may not understand for themselves why someone special has died.

This book is highly recommended for school libraries, church libraries, in lending libraries of centers for grieving children, and for families who are struggling to explain loss to young children.

Grief matters.

This book was required by the professor of a course in Children's Grief, who is the author. Although I don't appreciate a professor requiring their own books for a course, this book is well worth the cost. It is a very well written book and appropriate for working with children in a counseling setting. It would also be good for parents to use with children after a death in the family.

The book was very appropriate for my neices and my entire family. The book really helped us when my dad died a few weeks back. My neices are 5 and 4, and they book helped them understand a little better what was going on. This book also provided with activities we could do as a family.