GriefBooks Grief and Loss Reading
List
Children
LIFE
& LOSS: A Guide to Help Grieving Children. Linda Goldman.
2nd Edition. Accelerated Development,
1900 Frost
Rd. Suite 101,
Bristol PA 19007-1598 Call 1 800 821 8312 and
Breaking the Silence: A guide to help
children with Complicated Grief: Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and
Abuse. Linda
Goldman
How to Survive the
Loss of a Child.
Katherine Sanders.Prima Publishing. Rocklin, CA. 1992. Well
written, easy to read, written by a bereaved parent & professional
death educator.
The Kid’s Book
about Death and Dying.
Eric E. Rofes. Little Brown and Company,
Boston, 1985. Observations by kids
(11-14) about their thoughts, feeling and behavior around the issues of
death and dying. Useful for parents to read as a
way to talk to their children about loss. Also
useful for mature kids.
Recovering From the Loss of a
Child. Katherine Fair Donnelly.
Berkley Books,
New
York.
1994. Hopeful account as it takes the reader 10 years on to look at
surviving families.
The Bereaved Parent. Harriet Sarnoff Schiff. Penguin Books. New York, N.Y. 1986. Moving and practical
help not just for loss of a child but in recovering from grief in every
aspect of your life that it touches.
Gentle
Closings. Ted Menten. Running Press. Philadelphia, PA. 1991. (any book by
Ted) Delightful - full of gentle humor and wonderful sharings of terminal children.
