Provides assistance for individuals dealing with loss, with advice on the stages of grief and how to support the healing process in order to get through the pain.

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...

In "conversations" with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.

After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.

"Grampa used to time everything. He timed me when I raced to the end of our street and back: 24 seconds. He timed me eating bubblegum ice cream: 1 minute, 58 seconds. Sometimes I timed him, too: 18 minutes to drink his coffee. This summer, though, I don't have Grandpa anymore. All I have is his stopwatch. Maybe there's a reason he left it behind..."--Provided by publisher.

"Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and compelling imagery to introduce the concept of grief. This book aims to normalize the topic of death by discussing what it means and how it feels to experience loss. It centers around several questions that arise about grief and honest, simple ways to answer them. While young children are avid observers...

A young girl tells a true story in music about how her grandmother shared her love of flowers and painting, and how it helped them both deal with the death of the girl's grandfather.

Here is the book that Elf-help fans everywhere were asking for... a book to help children grieve in healthy ways. This friendly and loving guide is loaded with positive, life-affirming help to coping with loss as a child.

Becky slowly returns to the activities she enjoyed with her big brother, John, after learning that he is still part of her family, even after his death.

A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.