Recommended Reading
Books for Dealing with Grief
Books for children
- Lifetime: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Brian Mellonie (Bantem Books, 1987)
- Waterbugs and Dragonflys: Explaining Death to Young Children by Doris Stickney (Pilgrim Press, 1997)
- It Isn’t Easy by M. Connolly and R. Manahan (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Books for parents
1) Talking with Children and Young People about Death and Dying: A Workbook, by M. Turner (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998)
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Grieving children face a lot of anxiety. Take a look at our pages on anxiety while you’re here:
The Anxious Clingy Child intervention
A video on Anxiety and a child’s need for rest