What do you tell children when a parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness? What should you do? What should you talk about? When do you ell them? What words do you use? This book provides parents and other caregivers with...
Children and death
- Auteur:Hamilton, JoanSommaire:
- Auteur:Roberts, JillianSommaire:
A nonfiction picture book that introduces very young children to the concept of death in a way that is gentle, age-appropriate and comforting. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Auteur:Roberts, Dr. Jillian, Revell, CindySommaire:
Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death. Using questions posed in a child’s voice and answers that start simply and become more...
- Auteur:Austen, CatherineSommaire:
When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the...
- Auteur:Peterson, Lois, Meissner, AmySommaire:
Jack loves and misses his bus-driving grandfather. When Grandpa Nod got sick, Jack's mother said eight-year-old Jack was too young to visit his grandfather in hospital. When Grandpa Nod died, Jack's mother said Jack was too young to go...
- Auteur:Kerz, AnnaSommaire:
Mealworms are small creatures that live in dark secret places. Jeremy is a bit like that when he leaves his home in rural Nova Scotia and moves to Toronto with his mother. Lots of things keep him from enjoying his new life, but the...
- Auteur:Linden, DianneSommaire:
Shimmerdogs is the story of young Lester B. Hopkins — Mike to almost everyone except his mother, Master Corporal Alice Mackelwain. He is just a boy trying to make sense of his life, which is becoming more complicated by the world of his...
- Auteur:Best, LauraSommaire:
Pru Burbidge lives a simple life on the family homestead on Dalhousie Road in 1940s rural Nova Scotia until her father abandons the family and her mother falls ill. Her life is turned upside-down by these events, and she is forced to...
- Auteur:Walters, EricSommaire:
In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left behind for her, offering grandfatherly advice at life's most pivotal moments: first day...