Books for young children and parents
Aaron Becker A stone For Sascha
Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown When dinosaurs die: a guide to understanding death
Dick Bruna Dear Grandma Bunny
Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys If all the world were…
Benji Davies Grandad’s island
Nicola Davies The pond
Sandra Dieckman Waiting for Wolf
Caitlin Doughty Will my cat eat my eyeballs? and other questions about dead bodies
Arlen Grad Gaines and Meredith Englander Polsky I have a question about death: a book for children with autism spectrum disorder or other special needs
Earl A Grollman Talking about death: a dialogue between parent and child
Dawn Hewitt When someone dies
Oliver Jeffers The heart and the bottle (Philomel Books, 2010)
Judith Kerr Goodbye Mog
Moth Goodbye, Mr Jim
Jayde Perkin Mum’s jumper
Hilary Robinson The copper tree: helping a child cope with death and loss
Michael Rosen Michael Rosen's sad book
Britta Teckentrup The memory tree (2013)
Isabel Thomas and Daniel Egnéus Fox: a Circle of Life story
Susan Varley Badger’s parting gifts
Books for older children
Kate DiCamillo The tiger rising
Ross Welford The 1,000-year-old boy
E. B. White Charlotte’s web
Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt The cat mummy
Young adult books
Ava Dellaira Love letters to the dead
Neil Gaiman The graveyard book
John Green The fault in our stars
Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd A monster calls
Katherine Paterson Bridge to Terabithia
Adam Silvera History is all you left me
Adam Silvera They both die at the end