Books About Helping Families Cope with Loss, Grief

This grouping is not an official list supported by CDT or the Department of Health & Human Services. All of these books have not been read by CDT staff. It is a compiling of suggested readings by others in the donation community. We hope you find them helpful.

Grief/Loss

For Children

• The Giving Tree – Silverstein, Shel
• When Dinosaur’s Die – Brown, Laurie and Marc
• Sarah’s Journey: One Child’s Experience with Death of Her Father – Wolfelt, Alan
• When Someone Very Special Dies – Heegaard, Marge
• The Fall of Freddy the Leaf – Buscaglia, Leo
• Water Bugs & Dragonflies – Stickney, Doris
• Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing with Loss - Alley, RW
• What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? – Romain, Trevor
• I Wish I Could Hold Your Hand – Palmer, Pat
• Recovering From the Loss of a Sibling – Donnelly, Katharine
• When a Brother or Sister Dies: Looking Back, Moving Forward – Johnson, Joy

For Teenagers and Adults

• The Grieving Child: A Parent’s Guide – Fitsgerald, Helen
• Helping Children Cope With Grief – Wolfelt, Alan
• How Do We Tell the Children – Schaaefer, Dan
• How it Feels When A Parent Dies – Krementz, Jill
• The One Last Wish Series – McDaniels, Lurlene
• For Those Who Give and Grieve: A Book for Donor Families – National Kidney Foundation
• The Grief Club – Beattie, Melody
• Recovering from Losses in Life – Wright, H. Norman
• How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies – Rando, Theresa
• The Orphaned Adult – Levy, Alexander
• On Grieving the Death of a Father – Smith, Harold Ivan
• The Mother Loss Workbook – Hambrook, Diane
• The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child – Redfern, Suzanne

Books of Religious/Spiritual Nature

• Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul – Canfield, Jack
• Roses in December: Comfort for the Grieving Heart – Heavlin, Marilyn
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Kushner, Harold S.
• Angel Unaware – Evans Rogers, Dale
• Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart – Wolfelt, Alan