Customer Reviews

What On Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?

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I searched through all the books on the amazon website related to helping children face death of a loved one. I read all the reviews, ordered all the books that sounded good. I then read all the books that sounded good and this is my top pick. I gave it to a five year old whose grandmother had died. His father told me that it helped him just as much as his son. I am writing this review, sadly, because I am ordering it again for a teen-age boy whose little brother drowned recently.This book will not turn kids off, it is not corny or sentimental. As a family therapist, I only use the best books available and hope that this recommendation helps someone else.

This is an excellent book to help ANYONE through a time of grief in their life. It may be written on a juvenile level, but it explains a lot of things about grieving and death that you may not have heard from anyone before. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

This book provides brief and blunt answers to questions many children may have and adults may not consider - it touches on 'What is a Memorial Service', 'Where does the person go', 'Am I Going To Die Too?', 'Is the Death My Fault' as well as common feelings experienced while grieving. Each topic is brief and written for a child.
As an Adult: At first, this was the only book I could read myself, as most of the other books were too overwhelming.

My 9 year-old son recently lost his father and he was not talking to me or any family members about his feelings. This book was very thorough for a young person and it helped him to open dialogue with me and start his grieving process. I highly recommend this book.

I bought this for my 4 1/2 year old, she has never seen it. I found it too clinical, and not at all what I had imagined having read the other reviews. The cartoons seemed aimed at my daughters age group, yet the writing is in my opinion, not for little ones. I showed this book to my twelve year old niece, thinking maybe the target was more in her age range. Her response was an incredulous "isnt this supposed to make you feel better!?"...

For a young person, you cannot, absolutely cannot, beat this book (and the DVD). The story is clear and insightful. Your kids (grandkids, children of friends or acquaintenances...whomever) will immediately identify with the characters (everybody loves Sky!) and the advice on how to express grief is sound. If you know of young kids who are grieving the loss of a parent, grandparent, schoolmate, or even a pet...this is a great purchase to make for him/her.

My father passed away a few months ago and the library had this DVD. I got it for my son who is 8 years old, but I also ended up feeling comforted by the healing words the author speaks. That being said, I found this to be informative yet gentle for a child's mind and not terribly fantasy-like. There is one part where the person who passed away comes down and flies away with the survivor child -- that's about as "untrue" as it gets.

Overall I would definitely recommend this for any age..

Was a good resource for 8-11 yr old kids upon the death of a loved one.