Recommended Book List


Bereavement Support Library

  • Good grief, by Granger E. Westberg

  • Grieving dads: To the brink and back, by Kelly Farley and David Dicola

  • Empty cradle, broken heart: Surviving the death of your baby, by Deborah Davis

  • Finding hope with a child dies: What other cultures can teach us, by Sukie Miller

  • Healing a parent’s grieving heart: 100 practical ideas after your child dies, by Alan Wolfelt

  • How to go on living when someone you love dies, by Therese A. Rhando

  • How to help your marriage survive the death of a child, by Paul C Rosenblatt

  • How to survive the loss of a child: Filling the emptiness and rebuilding your life, by Catherine Saunders

  • Longing for my child, by Christine O’Keefe Lafser

  • No mountain too high, by Ned Levitt

  • The spiritual lives of bereaved parents, by Dennis Klass

  • The grieving garden: Living with the death of a child, by Suzanne Redfern and Susan Gilbert

  • Understanding grief: Helping yourself heal, by Alan Wolfelt

  • When bad things happen tgood people, by Harold S. Kushner

  • When the bow breaks, by Judith R. Bernstein

  • When your child dies: Tools for mending parents’ broken hearts, by Avril Nagel and Randie Clark

Illustrated Books

  • Aarvy aardvark finds hope, by Donna O’Toole

  • Always and forever, by Alan Durant

  • Carry You With Me, by Alanna Knobben

  • Badger’s parting gifts, by Susan Varley

  • Gentle willow: A story for children about dying, by Joyce C. Mills

  • Help me say goodbye, by Janis Silverman

  • Helping children cope with grief, by Alan Wolfelt

  • I miss you: A first look at death, by Pat Thomas

  • Lifetimes, by Bryan Mellonie & Robert Ingpen

  • Sad isn’t bad, by Michaelene Mundy

  • Someone I love died, by Christine Harder Tanguald

  • The fall of freddie the leaf, by LeBuscaglia

  • The invisible string, by Patrice Karst

  • The next place, by Warren Hanson

  • The memory tree, Britta Teckentrup

  • When dinosaurs die, by Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown