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Recommended Reads: Children's Books on Grief & Loss

Picture Books

Boats for Papa by Jessixa Bagley
Call Number: JP Bagley
Henry and Bea by Jessixa Bagley
Call Number: JP Bagley
Up in Heaven by Emma Chichester Clark (Illustrator)
Call Number: JP Chichester
Grandpa's Stories by Joseph Coelho
Call Number: JP Coelho
Sally Goes to Heaven by Stephen Huneck
Call Number: JP Huneck
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
Call Number: JP Karst
Just What to Do by Kyle Lukoff
Call Number: JP Lukoff
When Aunt Mattie Got Her Wings by Petra Mathers
Call Number: JP Mathers
The Goodbye Book by Todd Parr
Call Number: JP Parr
Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Call Number: JP Seeger

Children's Non-Fiction

What Happens When a Loved One Dies? by Jillian Roberts
Call Number: J 155.937 Roberts

Adult Non-Fiction

The Grieving Child by Helen Fitzgerald; Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Call Number: 155.937 Fitzgerald
Parenting a Grieving Child by Mary DeTurris Poust
Call Number: 248.866 Poust