Subject: Children -- Death -- Psychological aspects (Keywords)

Let me tell you a story. When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer, they have to find a way to tell their two young sons. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? What practical lessons does children's literature with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, ...

Two years after the death of their son, Charlie, Vince and his wife Lydia are still struggling to come to terms with the loss. Vince was prescribed lithium for his stress-induced bipolar disorder, diagnosed after a nervous breakdown - but the medication also makes him feel confused and fuzzy. So ...

Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through ...

""She's in a better place now," adults say again and again. But mortality 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 a...

Cate Carlton has recently died, yet somehow she is able to linger on, watching her three young children and her husband as they come to terms with their life without her on their rural horse property. As the months pass and her children grow, they cope in different ways, both drawn closer and pul...

Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems, but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping and the PTA-ing, while pla...

Two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting chatting with her grandmother on a park bench in New York when a brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead and strikes her unconscious. As she is rushed to hospital in the hours before her death Once More We Saw Stars leads us into the unimaginable. Her father...

A violent and senseless crime committed against an innocent citizen, and a father's desire 25 years later to speak directly to others who have lost a child or experienced similar grief to help in the necessary recovery back into their lives. Ciara Glennon vanished into the night in Perth, Western...

Teenagers experience loss in all kinds of ways. Whether the death of a grandparent or a pet, a peer with a terminal illness or something else. Helps teens navigate some of lifes most difficult moments.