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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

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