Guidance Office

Below is a list of books intended to help elementary children understand loss and manage grief.  I have not personally read each of them, but all have been recommended by other school counselors and school psychologists.
 

• Water Bugs & Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children by Doris Stickney

• My Yellow Balloon by Tiffany Papageorge

• Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley

• I Miss You by Pat Thomas

• Grandad's Island by Benji Davies

• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown

• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

• The Next Place by Warren Hanson

• The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst (recommended for pet loss)