Todd Parr provides a beautiful, colorful, well thought out story for our smallest children to help guide them through the hard task of saying goodbye.

Separation, death 

Various animals come to try to help but only one is a real comfort. This is a great book for a child dealing with grief but also for his/her friends to read to help them help their friend.

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3 years and up

Grief, loss, friendship

In a beautiful story with beautiful illustrations this book shows the reader the different stages of grief when a friend (dog) dies. Prepare for your heart to be broken and then stitched back up. 

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Grief, loss, recovery

​In a beautiful story with beautiful illustrations this book shows the reader the different stages of grief when a friend (dog) dies. Prepare for your heart to be broken and then stitched back up. 

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Grief, loss, recovery

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The idea of the book is that you are always linked to the ones you love and love you by an invisible string. 

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Separation, loss. 

Badger is old and he realizes soon he will die. The book tells a magical story to help prepare his friends.

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Death, loss, old age. 

Finn misses his grandfather every time he looks out his window he is reminded of  the stories his grandfather told him about the place where the ocean meets the sky. Where whales and jellyfish soar and birds and castles float.

Finn’s grandfather is gone now but Finn knows the perfect way to honor him. He’ll build his own ship and sail out to find this magical place himself!

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Grief and healing

​A touching book about a boy and his dog. He is always by his side and he looks after him while he ages, when he dies the boy remembers that his dog will always know how loved he was.

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Loss of a pet.

 One of the first look series, researched well and extremely helpful to introduce the concepts of death and funerals in simple factual terms. 

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Death, Funeral, Grief.

The child in the story creates a memory box of mementos she and her lost loved one shared together. This helps her grieve and opens up conversation with your child/student about how you can cope when you lose someone you have loved. 

Grief, loss, recovery, Healing

​On the day of his Mother's Funeral an imaginary friend arrives in the form of a Gorilla who through kind and gentle dialogue helps the grieving boy answer the big questions he feels he cannot ask his Dad. Thoughtfully and honestly written and beautifully illustrated this is a great resource for a grieving child. 

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Grief, Empathy, Healing and Hope. 

 Exploration of unconditional love. Death is not directly mentioned but it is a great book to read as it is implied.

 Loss and Separation

The reader sees Tommy helping his grandmother care for his elderly great-grandmother, and the close bond he shares with both women. When his great-grandmother (and later his grandmother) dies, the story shows through Tommy’s point of view how he reacts to the deaths of these beloved family members.

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Death and Aging. 

Gus and Ida, are two city zoo polar bears and this beautiful book shows their feelings when Ida becomes sick with an illness that cannot be healed and later dies. It explores how it may feel when a loved one becomes terminally ill, with a focus on making the most of the time we have left with sick loved ones.

Terminally ill. Death, Grief 

Kai's Father dies and he experiences all kinds of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, guilt. Sometimes they crash and mix together. Other times, there are no emotions at all—just flatness. As Kai and his family adjust to life without Dad, the waves still roll in. But with the help of friends and one another, they learn to cope—and, eventually, heal. 

Healing, Grief, Emphathy

When his best friend Hippo, Monkey is so upset he cannot imagine what he will do without his friend who always told him stories and laughed at his jokes. This beautiful book gently guides young readers how to cope with loss.

Loss Grief and remembrance