bereavement books for kids

[Codswallop]

my lovely sister in law's mum is very ill and I am wanting to think about a book that may help My nephew and niece get through the inevitable..

any good ideas?

[hewlettsdaughter]

How old are they? There's a picture book, called Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley which is meant to be quite good.

[Codswallop]

Ah yes, I saw that

LOl at the dinosaur book ont hat link!

boy 5 girl 3

[SoupDragon]

I remember a thread somewhere about this - it may not have been Mumsnet. I did a Google search and came up with a website dealing with bereavement and children which had a list.

Busy tidying up (in thoery!) so can't look now. Something like bereavement children books was probably the search I did. There were 5 books or so that were appropriate.

[SoupDragon]

How about These?

[bundle]

we have the Mog book, which Judith Kerr wrote to tackle the issue of death, it's very sweet especially if they know Mog already

[SoupDragon]

Or there's a list here.

[captainCOD]

god! I had an uncle bob who did die!

[captainCOD]

the mog one looks a real tear jerker!

[bundle]

I'd heartily recommend it, Judith Kerr's getting on a bit herself & talked about it a lot on the radio when it was published.

[hewlettsdaughter]

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There may be others, I just searched on "Susan Varley" because I rememebered posting about the Badger book before.

[captainCOD]

Lol
a coffin dodger?!!

[captainCOD]

thanks HD

[miracleabie]

Hi anyone tried the Winston's Wish website?