Children -- Death
Here are entered works on the death of children. Works on children's experiences with, conceptions of, and reactions to death are entered under Children and death. Works on children's death rates and causes are entered under Children -- Mortality.
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
- Children -- Death -- Juvenile literature
- Children -- Death -- Juvenile poetry
- Children -- Death -- Psychological aspects
- Children -- Death -- Religious aspects
- Children -- Mortality
- Infants -- Death
- Child death
- Children -- Death and future state
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The Early Dead, or Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetical and Scriptural, on the Death of Children (Worcester, MA: H. J. Howland, 1857), ed. by William C. Whitcomb (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)- Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer, by S. B. Shaw (HTML and RTF at CCEL)
- Anger: A Story For Boys (London: Dean and Son, 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Carpenter's Daughter, by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner, illust. by Edmund Evans (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Lost Child (London and New York: Macmillan and Co;, 1871), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Lorenz Frølich (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer, by S. B. Shaw
- "Jesus Says So": or, A Memorial of Little Sarah G--- (Boston: Mass. Sabbath School Society, 1851) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Bennie and the Tiger (published with "The Dead Brother"; London: Dean and Son, ca. 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Janne "Beyond Life" (second edition, 2005), by Ilse Johnsen and Kjeld Johnsen, trans. by Lee Litle and Mette Saxbjørn (frame-dependent PDF with commentary at freebook-sorrow.com)
- Tears for the Little Ones: A Collection of Poems and Passages Inspired by the Loss of Children (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1878), by Helen Kendrick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Children in the Other Life, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at Swedenborg Digital Library)
- A Cursory Inquiry Into Some of the Principal Causes of Mortality Among Children (London: Printed for the author, 1817), by John Bunnell Davis (illustrated HTML at neonatology.net)
- Excessive Infant-Mortality: How Can It Be Stayed? (London: J. Churchill and Sons, 1862), by M. A. Baines (illustrated HTML at neonatology.net)
- Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2022), by Frances Susan Hasso (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- SIDS, Sudden Infant and Early Childhood Death: The Past, the Present and the Future (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2018), ed. by Jhodie R. Duncan and Roger W. Byard (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- SIDS, Sudden Infant and Early Childhood Death: The Past, the Present and the Future (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2018), ed. by Jhodie R. Duncan and Roger W. Byard (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Terminally ill children -- Care- When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
- When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
- The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
- Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text)
- Little Folks of Many Lands (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1904), by Lulu Maude Chance
- Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Gertrude Jekyll
- Your Child Today and Tomorrow (second edition, 1920), by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (Gutenberg text)
- The Day Before Yesterday (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913), by Richard Middleton
- Our Little Alaskan Cousin, by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Gerard, Our Little Belgian Cousin (Boston: The Page Company, 1911), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
- Imagination and Children's Reading (Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1921), by Grace Hazard Conkling
- American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
- Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
- A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
- The Child and His Picture Book: A Discussion of the Preferences of the Nursery Child (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1933), by Larry Freeman and Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Foxy Grandpa and His Boys: Fun on the Farm (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
- Foxy Grandpa Playing Ball (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, ca. 1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
- Foxy Grandpa Rides the Goat (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland
- Domestic Pleasures, or, The Happy Fire-Side, by Frances Bowyer Vaux (Gutenberg text)
- Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's, by Sophie May
- Dotty Dimple at Play, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text)
- Dotty Dimple Out West, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- First Lessons in Gentleness and Truth, by Adelia C. Graves (page images at MOA)
- Little Prudy (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1891), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Little Prudy's Sister Susy, by Sophie May
- Prudy Keeping House, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Step-Brothers: A Tale (London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Broken Vase, and Other Stories, for Children and Youth (Fitchburg, MA: S. and C. Shepley, 1847)
- A Little Book About Little Birds, &c. (London: J. and C. Evans, 1826) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- William Penn's Advice to His Children, by William Penn
- Wisdom In Miniature, or, The Young Gentleman And Lady's Magazine: Being A Collection Of Sentences, Divine and Moral (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Adams, 1805)
- La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
More items available under broader and related terms at left.