What Happens When a Loved One Dies? - Our First Talk about Death by Jillian Roberts; Cindy Revell (Illustrator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Death and grief | Series: Just Enough Ser.
Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death. Using questions posed in a child's voice and answers that start simply and become more in-depth, this book allows adults to guide the conversation to a natu ...Show more
The Boy and the Gorilla by Jackie Azúa Kramer, Jackie Azua Kramer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief
This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss. On the day of his mother's funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see: a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy h ...Show more
An Atlas of Afterlives: Discover Underworlds, Otherworlds and Heavenly Realms by Emily Hawkins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief
An Atlas of Afterlives is a haunting and darkly intriguing take on world myth, giving readers a glimpse at what lies beyond. What happens after we die? This difficult question has fascinated people for thousands of years. An Atlas of Afterlives sets out to explore and explain the many underworlds, other ...Show more
Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch
$16.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief | Reading Level: very good
In a curiously heart-warming and elegantly illustrated story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. Duck and Death play together and discuss big questions. Death, dressed in a dressing gown and slippers, is sympathetic and kind and will be duck’s companion until the end. “I’m cold,” she ...Show more
The Hare-Shaped Hole by John Dougherty
$16.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief
"A beautiful, gentle, rhyming exploration of grief and mourning." - Joe Coelho, Waterstones Children's Laureate The Hare-Shaped Hole is a beautiful, touching, and poignant picture book which gently explores themes of grief and loss. Hertle and Bertle were always a pair, though one was a turtle and one w ...Show more
I Miss You (A First Look at Death) by Pat Thomas
$16.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief | Series: A First Look At
This reassuring picture book explores the difficult issue of death for young children. Children's feelings and questions about this sensitive subject are looked at in a simple but realistic way. This book helps them to understand their loss and come to terms with it. Notes for parents and teachers at t ...Show more
The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
$14.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief | Reading Level: 5-9
Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this life-affirming and uplifting tale. Once there was a girl whose life was filled with wonder at the world around her... Then one day something happened that made the girl take her heart and put it in a safe place. How ...Show more
Wherever You are, My Love Will Find You (Board) by Nancy Tillman
$14.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
. . . I wanted you more than you'll ever know, so I sent love to follow wherever you go. . . . Love is the greatest gift we have to give our children. It's the one thing they can carry with them each and every day. If love could take shape it might look something like these heartfelt words and image ...Show more
The Grief Book: Strategies for Young People by Elizabeth Vercoe, Kerry Abramowski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief
A book full of practical ideas to help you or somebody you know move through grief. "Grief is like manure: if you spread it out it fertilises. If you leave it in a big pile, it smells like hell." This CBCA Honour book is written in everyday language, making it accessible to children, teens and adults. ...Show more
Life is Like the Wind (A Big Hug Book) by Shona Innes
$17.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief | Series: A\Big Hug Book Ser.
The life inside your body is tricky to see, but you can feel it. Life lets you run and laugh and play - like how the wind helps kites to fly across the sky and leaves to dance across the ground. But where does the wind go when it stops blowing? And where does life go when it leaves the body?This series ...Show more
If All the World Were... by Joseph Coelho
$14.99 AUD
Category: Death and grief
A moving, poetic picture book about a young girl's love for her granddad and how she copes when his grandad dies, written by poet and playwright Joe Coelho. This powerful and ultimately uplifting text is the ideal way to introduce children to the concept of death and dying, particularly those who have l ...Show more
If You Were Here by Elisabeth Sophia
$24.95 AUD
Category: Death and grief
If you were here I’d hug you tight. If you were here I’d say, ‘You are my very bestest friend.’ I wish you could have stayed. If You Were Here is a beautiful rhyming story for little ones who have lost someone important to them. Through a little boy’s journey of loss to hope, If You Were Here shows us h ...Show more