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English
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When adults face a significant loss, they must grapple with their own profound grief, and they are often called upon to nurture and support their grieving children. This is the first book to address this very common dual grieving challenge. As a practicing psychotherapist for twenty-nine years, Robert Zucker can offer parents and other concerned readers important insights into managing their own grief while supporting their grieving children. He offers:
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Publisher
ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This book offers a valuable tool for anyone directly or indirectly affected by grief, especially teens and young adults, who may be experiencing a significant loss for the first time. Older adults often believe teenagers and young adults grieve in the same way they do, but bereaved young people have unique needs and ways of coping with loss.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A unique compilation of candid interviews with children ages 4-18 talking about their experiences of their parents' divorce, about coping with illness in the family, dealing with the loss of a loved one, and learning to cope and thrive with autistic siblings. The kids talk about their pain. They talk about their adjustment. They talk about their love and understanding. The children have phenomenal wisdom and compelling practical advice to share.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a death of a loved one, grownups are often unsure about how to help young children. Death is a difficult concept for adults to process, and most feel helpless in the presence of a grieving child. For children, there is an added dimension. Their capacity to make send of the loss is filtered through the lens of their developmental state. After some discussion of infants and toddlers, our young experts, ages 4-12, explain with patience and wisdom,...
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English
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To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.
In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children from the false idea of "not feeling bad" and to empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss.
There are many life experiences that...
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English
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"Start the conversation with kids about grief - a normal and healthy (if not very nice) experience we all share as human beings. This is a kids' book about grief. Grief is a small word for a BIG experience. Grief affects us emotionally, yes, but also physically, socially, spiritually, and really in every part of our lives. This book was made to help kids aged 5-9 understand what grief is and how to live through it. The important thing to know is...
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English
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When a close friend or family member dies, it can be sad for kids and difficult for them to express the big feelings they are experiencing. This book will help explain in a gentle way that death is a natural complement to life and that grief and a sense of loss are normal feelings to have following the death of a loved one.
Parents, teachers, and gift givers will find:
• language that is simple, direct, and easy for young children to understand
• a...
11) Crumble
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Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
Emily, her mom, and her aunt, who can magically bake emotions into the desserts sold at their family bakery, have a rule against baking bad feelings; but when Aunt Gina is killed in a car accident, Emily bakes her grief into a crumble and discovers the reason behind the rule.
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English
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"The death of a friend is a wrenching event for anyone at any age and can spark feelings that range from sadness to guilt to anxiety. Teenagers especially need help coping with grief and loss. This sensitive book answers questions grieving teens often have, like "How should I be acting?" "How long will this last?" and "What if I can't handle my grief on my own?" The book also addresses the complicated emotions that can accompany the death of an acquaintance,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"... a touching and hopeful story about saying goodbye to someone you love."--Provided by publisher.
"... una conmovedora y esperanzadora historia sobre despedirse de alguien a quien amas."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Rise
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This book aims to normalize the topic of death by discussing what it means and how it feels to experience loss. It centers around several questions that arise about grief and [offers] honest, simple ways to answer them"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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"There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal. It doesn't help that this will be the first vacation they're taking since Mom passed away. Once there, the family contends with 110 degree days, wild bears, and an annoying amateur ornithologist...
16) Death is stupid
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""She's in a better place now," adults say again and again. Butmortality doesn't seem better, it seems stupid. This forthright exploration of grief and mourning recognizes the anger, confusion, and fear that we feel about death.Necessary, beautiful, and ultimately reassuring,Death Is Stupid is an invaluable tool for discussing death, but also the possibilities for celebrating life and love. The Ordinary Terrible Things Series shows children who navigate...
17) Fowl play
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English
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Chloe Alvarez has never been to the reading of a last will and testament before, but she hopes it is just like the movies. Lies! Intrigue! The reading of her Uncle Will's will is standard, until he announces his gift for Chloe: his African grey parrot, Charlie. Uncle Will was Chloe's best friend. Without him, she's left with only her memories of them together--which come to her in snapshots--and her new friend, Charlie. The parrot has a vast vocabulary,...
18) Just what to do
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A child discovers that there is no single right thing to do when someone is sad or grieving"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Monsieur Lazhar
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Publication Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lazhar tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher. Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, offers the school his services as a substitute teacher and is quickly hired. As he helps the children heal, he also learns to accept his own painful past. This moving film features exquisite performances by Fellag...
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"Doran's mom, Isa, taught her to be bold and challenge the rules if they don't seem fair. People are more important than rules. But she never taught Dorani how to do it all without her. So, when Isa dies on the way to speak with the principal about Dori's latest revolution, Dori loses her voice. Her grief and guilt become the loudest parts of her. Moving from vibrant Miami to quiet, middle-of-nowhere Wyoming with her aunt feels like the punishment...
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