[LM_NET] HIT: Books on death, grief, and bereavement for children PART 2

[Brian Kemp <librianstlouis@GMAIL.COM>]

Here is part 2 of my HIT.

Brian Kemp, MSIS
Librarian
St. Louis Catholic School
Austin, TX

LipLap's Wish by Jonathon London

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There is a wonderful resource here in Omaha that provides a large variety of
materials concerning all types of bereavement (including divorce, etc.).   The
name of it is:



Centering Corporation

7230 Maple St.

Omaha, NE  68134

(402) 553-1200



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This list comes from several HITS off of LM_Net and is in no particular

order as I cut and pasted it, hoping never to need it.



Death and dying children's books

Appearing on 4 bibliotherapy booklists

*       What's Heaven? by Maria Shriver

*       When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie

Krasney Brown:  Gr 1-5. "Sensible, upbeat self-help ... crowded cartoons ...
terse

explanations ... has at its center a positive message: Grieve, and go on

with living." (Kirkus) (Little Brown, 1996)



Appearing on 3 bibliotherapy booklists

*       Goodbye Boat, The by Mary Joslin

*       Goodbye Mousie by Robie H. Harris

*       Sophie by Mem Fox

Appearing on 2 bibliotherapy booklists

*       A Gift for Abuelita: Celebrating the Day of the Dead by Nancy

Leunn

*       Alfie and the Birthday Surprise by Shirley Hughes

*       Day Chubby Became Charles, The by Achim Broger

*       Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton

*       Fox Song by Joseph Bruchac

*       Goodbye Max by Holly Keller

*       How Do I Feel About When People Die? by Sarah Levette

*       How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson

*       Jasper's Day by Marjorie Blain Parker

*       Mustard by Charlotte Towner Graeber

*       Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie DePaola

*       On Call Back Mountain by Eve Bunting

*       Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

Children's books about death and dying

The books are fiction and non-fiction, picture books and mostly text.

For that reason, you'll want to find out more about them to determine

which is right for a particular situation.

Bibliotherapy is the use of books to help children understand and heal.

On the bibliotherapy page you can learn more and also find lists of

children's books appropriate for other situations.

This list of children's books about death was compiled by consulting

some of the best bibliotherapy booklists on the subject (from the US,

Britain and Canada) and finding the books that were common to more than

one list.

The eight sources I consulted were:

*       The Bibliotherapy Education Project at Oregon State University

*       Children's Books About Death and Dying at The Logan (Utah)

Library

*       Death Booklist, culled from professional listservs by librarian

Nancy Keane

*       El Paso (Texas) Public Library bibliotherapy booklist by

librarian Laurel Indalecio

*       Sensitive Issues: Death from the Seattle (Washington) Public

Library

*       Bereavement: A Booklist for Children and Young People from the

Birmingham (UK) Public Libraries

*       Children's Books About Death and Dying, Homewood (Illinois)

Public Library

*       Picture Books Concerning Death and Loss, Penticton (British

Columbia) Public Library





Heavenly Village by Cynthia Rylant



Girls of a Tender Age by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith



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*       A Story for Hippo (Simon Puttock)

*       About dying: an open family book for parents and children

together.by Stein, Sara Bonnett.  Walker & Company, 1974.

*       Do Rainbows Last Forever?:  Preparing for the death of a loved

one by Cynthia DiLaura Devore,

*       Dresser Best Cat Ever by Maggie Smith

*       Gentle Willow: a story for children about dying  by Joyce C.

Mills,

*       Good Luck Mrs. K

*       How Do We Tell the Children by Schaefer for parents.

*       Poppy's chair. by Hesse, Karen. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

*       Rudi's Pond.

*       The Fall of Freddie the Leaf : A Story of Life for All Ages. by

Buscaglia, Leo F. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.: It is an excellent book
on

death for children" " I personally like Freddy the Leaf best, but my

best seller is When Dinos die." "The leaf is afraid of letting go of the

branch like all the other leaves. He is afraid of dying. I know this

book is used with children about death." "Death (of a leaf, in this

case) is presented in much the same fashion as in the Lion King's

"Circle of Life." The dedication is to "all children who have ever

suffered a permanent loss, and to the grownups who could not find a way

to explain it."


*       The Giving Tree by Silverstein

*       To Hell With Dying by Alice Walker

*       Too Far Away to Touch

*       Tuesdays with Morrie

*       What's Heaven by Maria Shriver

*       When someone very special dies: children learn to cope with

grief.by Heegaard, Marge.  Woodland Press, 1988.

*       Where is grandpa?. by Barron, T.A. Philomel Books/Putman Books,

2000.

Remebering Mrs. Rossi by Hest

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