Support Resources
Asking for help.
Hope Again - support for young people
WaY - Widowed and Young
SoBS - Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
SoS - Silence of Suicide
Support after Suicide
Support after Murder and Manslaughter
Grief Encounter - helping bereaved children
Winstons Wish - Family Support
Young Minds
Child Bereavement UK
A Particular Need
Just Read a Good book
Please remember that these books should be selected for the child – not by age. While some may be appropriate for all, others will need to be placed carefully and may contain adult themes or triggers. It is always advised that you read the books before passing them on to the young person and, also check the young person wants your recommendations.
Be aware of the young person’s faith or belief system (or lack thereof) before recommending books that specifically refer to (or against) the afterlife.
Picture Books
Harry and the Robots – Ian Whybrow
Goodbye Mog – Judith Kerr
Badgers Parting Gifts – Susan Varley
Invisible String – Patrice Karst
Always and Forever – Alan Durant
The Memory Tree – Britta Teckentrup
The Memory Box – Joanna Rowland
Why do things die? - Katie Daynes
Rabbityness – Jo Empson
Grandad’s Island – Benji Davies
The Goodbye book – Todd Parr
The heart and the bottle – Oliver Jeffers
The Tenth Good Thing about Barney – Judith Viorst
I miss you – Pat Thomas
When Dinosaurs Die – Laurie Krasny Brown
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf – Leo Buscaglia
Fox : A Circle of Life Story – Isabel Thomas
Where are you Lydie – Emma Poore
Early Readers
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs – Tomie DePaola
Cry Heart but never break – Glenn Ringtved
Duck, Death and the Tulip – Wold Eribruch
Let’s talk about when someone dies – Molly Potter
When Sadness Comes to Call – Eva Eland
One Wave at a time – Ashley Crowley Holly
My brother and me – Sarah Courtauld
Ida, Always – Caron Levis
The Coat I wear – Mel Maxwell
Water Bugs and Dragonflies – Doris Stickney
For Parents
Is Daddy coming back in a minute? – Elke Barber
Lifetimes – the beautiful way to explain death to children – Bryan Mellonie
Missing Mummy – Rebecca Cobb
The Dragonfly Story – Kelly Owen
As big as it gets – Julie A Stokes
A child’s grief – Di Stubbs
Grief in Children – Atle Dyregrov
Never too young to know – Phyllis Silverman
Young Fiction
Sad Book – Michael Rosen
Tear Soup – Pat Schwiebert
A Shelter for Sadness – Anne Booth
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
Children Also Grieve – Linda Goldman
A Complete book about death for kids – Early Grollman
Will my cat eat my eyeballs – Caitlyn Doughty
Great answers to difficult questions about death – Linda Goldman
I know I made it happen – Lyn Blackburn
The Saddest Time – Norma Simon
Time for Uncle Joe – Nancy Jewell
A taste of blackberries – Doris Smith
Annie and the Old One – Miska Miles
A gift for Tia Rosa – Karen Taha
Missing May – Cynthia Rylant
Devil’s Bridge – Cynthia C De Felice
The Rag Coat – Lauren Mills
A Star for the latecomer – Paul Zindel
Winter Holding Spring – Crescent Dragonwagon
Ghost Brother – C S Adler
Nadia, The Wilful – Sue Alexander
Older Fiction
Just under the clouds – Melissa Sarno
The house with chicken legs – Sophie Anderson
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Johnny and the Dead – Terry Pratchett
Dance on my grave – Aidan Chambers
All this time – Rachel Lippincott
The Fault in our Stars – John Green
Dear Evan Hansen – Val Emmich
The Ghost of Gosswater – Lucy Strange
History is all you left me – Adam Silvera
Turtle Boy – M Evan Wolkenstein
Tamarind & The Star of Ishta – Jasbinder Bilan
The Shark Caller – Zillah Bethell
Finding Joy – Gary Andrews
Forever ends on Friday – Justin Reynolds
The Memory book – Lara Avery
A tragic kind of wonderful – Eric Lindstrom
Pog – Padraig Kenny
The Rest of the story – Sarah Dessen