Picture books about grief and loss

Badger’s Parting Gifts: 35th Anniversary Edition of a picture book to help children deal with death

Susan Varley

Features a helpful reading guide from Child Bereavement UK that provides tips for reading Badger’s Parting Gifts with children and helping them better understand grief.

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Paperback

All the Dear Little Animals

Ulf Nilsson

A funny illustrated chapter book about three children who decide someone must bury all the world’s poor dead animals.

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Hardback

The Boy and the Gorilla

Jackie Azua Kramer

This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss.

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Hardback

Let’s Talk About When Someone Dies: Starting conversations with children about death and bereavement

Molly Potter

From Molly Potter comes a picture book for starting conversations with children about death, bereavement and what happens next.

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The Tenth Good Thing about Barney

Judith Viorst

In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat.

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If All the World Were…

Joseph Coelho

A moving, poetic picture book about the love between a grandfather and child. An ideal book for children who have lost a grandparent.

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Hardback

What Happens Next?

Shinsuke Yoshitake

A sensitive and gently humorous look at a little boy’s imaginings of where his Grandpa goes after he dies.

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Paperback

The Invisible String

Patrice Karst, Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (illus.)

An under-the-radar bestseller that has helped countless readers of all ages across the world cope with separation anxiety, loss, loneliness, and grief–now available in paperback and re-illustrated for a new…

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Hardback

Cry, Heart, But Never Break

Glenn Ringtved

A beautiful, sensitive picture book about being able to say goodbye to those we love, while holding them in memory.

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Duck, Death and the Tulip

Wolf Erlbruch (Author)

In a strangely heart-warming and beautifully illustrated story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death.

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Hardback

The Goodbye Book

Todd Parr

In his signature kid-friendly way, Todd Parr tells a heartbreaking but hopeful story about saying goodbye to the people we love.

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Hardback

Bertolt

Jacques Goldstyn

A charming, touching story about an imaginative, introverted boy whose best friend is an old oak tree named Bertolt.

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Hardback

Small Things

Mel Tregonning

An ordinary boy in an ordinary world…With no words, only illustrations, Small Things tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help…

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