Re: Life and Death Books

[hollyg714@aol.com]

How about Charlotte's Web?  E. B. White provides readers with a very touching an
 d insightful story about the life cycle. Good luck with the class.

Holly Ledbetter
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From: Glendora Public Library <gplccen@CLASS.ORG>
Subject: Re: Books about Death

Where the red fern grows--about the death of 2 dogs.
There is also a Sesame Street book: "I'll miss you Mr. Hooper"
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From: KREMER@midyork.lib.ny.us
Subject: ya books dealing with death

Try Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
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From: MARILEE PRICE <S7HE@UNB.CA>
Subject: Re[2]: Just one suggestion on Books about Death..

Natalie,

One last thing, have you tried Charlotte's Web?

Marilee, S7HE@UNB.CA
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From: LINDAG@bnk1.bnkst.edu
Subject: Re: Life and Death

A very nice book about the death of a grandparent is "Grandpa's slide show"  by
 Deborah Gould (Lothrop, '87), also "I Had a Friend Named Peter" by Janice Cohn
 (Morrow, '87); for nonfiction try Norma Simon's "The Saddest Time" (Whitman '86
 ).
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From: MARILEE PRICE <S7HE@UNB.CA>
Subject: Re: Life and Death Books

Have you tried _Alex the Life of a Child_?  This is a book written by a parent o
 f a child who died with Cystic Fibrosis.  I'm sorry, but I can't find it amongs
 t my books, so I can't give you an authors name. Perhaps someone else knows the
  title?  This boo
k has also been made into a movie, but don't watch without a box of Kleenex!
Marilee Price, E-mail S7HE@UNB.CA
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From: Cheryl Stewart <CSTEWART%WSU.BITNET@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Life and Death Books

The author of _Alex the Life of a Child_ is Frank Deford.  He is a sports writer
  and reporter.
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From: Phyllis Shipley <SHIPLEY%UWPLATT.BITNET@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Books with death as a theme

Hi!  Here are more titles with stories dealing with death that I have come in co
 ntact with:

Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume  (girl's father dies in a convenience store robbery)

The Bird's Christmas Carol by Wiggins (a story written long ago about an ill chi
 ld--death is not in many books written in this time period of 1941)

Nobody's Fault by Hermes (a riding lawnmower accident kills a girl's brother)

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry ( a sister's death)

There is also one by Marion Dane Bauer, but I can't recall the title.  It's abou
 t 2 boys who live in the Starved Rock State Park area; they stop to swim in a d
 angerous river and one boy drowns.  An excellent story that was popular with
elementary/middle school age readers when it first came out in the late '80's.
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From: Natalie Theresa Neu <nneu@trumpet.aix.calpoly.edu>
Subject: Books about death for children

Our group has now finished the project, and here is our list.
_There is a Rainbow Behind Every Cloud_
_Beyond the Ridge_
_The Accident_
_Jim's Dog Muffins_
_When A Pet Dies_
_Across the Meadow_
_The Tenth Good Thing About Barney_
_Growing Time_
_The Fall of Freddie the Leaf_
_Nana upstairs and Nana downstairs_
_The Happy Funeral_
_My Grandpa Died Today_
_Saying goodbye to Grandma_
_Saying Goodbye to Daddy_
_A Look at Death_
_When People Die_
_Learning to say Goodbye_

Some of these books are pretty straightforward and direct, others are really bea
 utiful -- some are too "sweet."
Thanks to everybody who helped.
Natalie Neu
nneu@trumpet.aix.edu.calpoly