Suggested Readings for Children on Grief, Loss and Death

Prepared by the Bereavement Staff of Gila Regional Medical Center Hospice
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PRE-SCHOOL AND EARLY ELEMENTARY AGED CHILDREN

• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
• The Happy Funeral by E. Bunting (Harper and Row)
• Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton (Reading Rainbow)
• Talking About Death by Earl Grollman (Beacon Press)
• Last Week My Brother Anthony Dies by M. W. Hickman (Abington Press)
• Lifetimes by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen (Bantam Books)
• Jasper's Day by Marjorie Blain Parker (Kids Can Press)
• Geranium Morning by Sandy E. Powell (Carolrhoda Books)
• Why Did Grandpa Die? By B. Shook-Hazen (Western Publishing Co)
• A Quilt for Elizabeth by B. Tiffault (Centering Corporation)
• Saying Goodbye to Daddy by Judith Vigna (Albert Whitman & Co)

ELEMENTARY AGED CHILDREN

• The Accident by C. Carrick (Houghton Mifflin)
• Dusty Was My Friend  by A.F. Claudy (Human Science Press)
• Poppy's Chair by K. Hesse (Macmillan Publishing Co)
• Emily's Sadhappy Season by S. Lowden-Golightly (Centering Corporation)
• The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn (Child Welfare League of America)
• Taste of Blackberries by D.B. Smith (Thomas Crowell Co)

OLDER ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN

• Where the Balloons Go by Paul Coleman (Centering Corporation)
• Sun & Spoon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
• You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye by P. Hermes (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
• Bridge to Terabithia by K. Paterson (Harper and Row)

MIDDLE SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN

• Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (Bradbury Press)
• Beat the Turtle Drum by C. Greene (Viking Press)

HIGH SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN

• A Matter of Time by R. Schotter (Collins Press)
• Fire in My Heart, Ice in My Veins by Enid Traisman (Centering Corporation)
• Part of Me Died, Too by Virginia Fry (Dutton Penguin)