Comfort Baskets ® Bibliography

This book list was compiled and is recommended by Dr. Anne Black. If we were able to find a description and/or a way to order these books on-line, they are linked. The rest of the books are still in print and available from your public library or local bookstore.

We also have found most of these book on amazon.com. You may also be able to find them on other major book sellers sites such as barnesandnobel.com and borders.com, as well as independent sites. However we prefer amazon's cross-refrencing cababilities and have linked to them when possible.

	A Child's Bibliography On Death and Dying		Discussing Death with Children

	Using Art with Children		For Adults: Suicide and Adolescents

	For Adults: On Death and Dying		On-line lists and bookstores that we think are relevant and comprehensive.

A Child's Bibliography On Death and Dying

	Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley

	Beyond the Ridge by Paul Goble

	Blow Me a Kiss, Miss LillyÊby Nancy White Carlstrom

	Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.

	Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie

	Charlotte's Web by E.B.White

	The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown

	The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia

	Grandfather's Laika by Mats Wahl

	Losing Uncle Tim by Marykate Jordan

	Odette: A Springtime in Paris by Kay Fender and Philippe Dumas

	Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

	Some of the Pieces by Melissa Madenski

	A Taste of Blackberries by D.B. Smith

	The Tenth Good Thing About BarneyÊ by Judith Viorst

	The Very Best of Friends by Margaret Wild

Discussing Death with Children

	A Few Words to a Caring Adult Wanting to Support a Grieving Child

	The greatest gift you can offer a child whose loved one died is to give him or her permission to feel and express the emotions of grief - fear, sadness, anger and love. Remember: you do NOT have to have all the answers to the mysteries of life. Validate the child's story (unless there are inaccurate facts - which you will want to gently correct); encourage the child to draw pictures, write letters or poetry; and create safety for them to release feelings of anger and/or sadness, while honoring their grief process. Children can go in and out of grief very quickly. One minute they may be crying and the next minute inquiring what's for dessert.Ê Learn to just go with the child's flow.

	Bereaved Children and Teens by Earl Grollman

	Books and Films On Death and Dying for Children and Adolescents: An Annotated Bibliography

	Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief - Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse. by Linda Goldman

	Children's Conceptions of Death by Richard Lonetto

	Children & Grief Curriculum by Donna O'Toole (A very good source for suicide education can be found in this book.)

	Good Grief: Helping Groups of Children When a Friend Dies by Sandra Sutherland Fox

	Growing Through Grief - A K-12 Curriculum to Help Young People Through All Kinds of Loss by Donna O'Tool

	Helping Children Cope With Death: Guidelines and Resources by Hannelore Wass and Charles Corr

	Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia L. Jewett

	How It Feels When A Parent Dies by Jill Krementz

	Kids Grieve Too! by Victor S., and Edith F. Lombardo

	Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children by Linda Goldman

	Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst

	On Children and Death: How Children and their parents Can and Do Cope with Death by Elizabeth KŸbler-Ross

	Part of Me Died, Too by Verginia Fry

	What Will We Do?: Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crisis by Robert G. Stevenson

	A Window to Heaven by Diane M. Komp

Using Art with Children

	Drawing with Children by Mons Brookes

	The Secret World of Drawings by Gregg M. Furth

	Windows to Our Children by Violet Oaklander

For Adults: Suicide and Adolescents

	Bibliography on Suicide and Suicide Prevention by Chevy Chase, MD

	Golden Girl: The Story of An Adolescent Suicide by Thomas J. Cottle

	Too Young to Die: Youth and Suicide by Francine Klagsbrun

	The Urge to Die: When Young People Commit Suicide by Peter Giovacchini

	When Living Hurts by Sol Gordon

For Adults: On Death and Dying

	The Bereaved Parent by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

	Companion Through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief by Stephanie Ericsson

	Continuing Bonds-New Understandings of GriefÊEdited by Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, and Steven L. Nickman

	Death : The Final Stage of Growth by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Editor)

	Healing Into Life and Death By Stephen Levine

	To Live Until We Say Good-Bye by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Mal Warshaw

	Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed By Stephen Levine

	Meditations for People in Crisis by Paul Brunton selected by Sam and Leslie Cohen

	Men & Grief: A Guide for Men Surviving The Death of a Loved One by Carol Staudacher

	Rituals for Living and Dying by David Feinstein and Peg Elliott Mayo

	Such is the Way of the World, A Journey through Grief by Barbara Schiff Brisson

	The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying By Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick Gaffney, and Andrew Harvey

	When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kusher, Harold S. Kushner

	When Living Hurts by Sol Gordon, Ph.D.

	The Widow's Resource by Julie A. Calligaro

On-line lists and bookstores that we think are relevant and comprehensive

	Amazon Books Grief List

	Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation

	Compassion Books If you have tried finding resources on loss and grief or on death and dying locally you know how hard they are to find. Compassion Books has hundreds of excellent books, audios and videos on these topics.

	Death In the Children's Picture Book area

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