Grief
Resources
The Dougy Center
Sesame Street for Families:
When Families Grieve
National Alliance for Grieving Children
Compassion Books:
Books on Grief and Loss for Children and Adults
WinterSpring Center for
Transforming Grief and Loss
Book Recommendations
for Children
The Memory Box: A Book About Grief
by Joanna Rowland
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
by Leo Buscaglia
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
by Lucille Clifton
Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope
by Donna O’Toole
The Saddest Time
by Norma Simon
Why Do I Feel So Sad?
A Grief Book for Children
Tracy Lambert-Prater
Lifetimes
by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen
The Invisible String
by Patrice Karst
Badger’s Parting Gifts
by Susan Varley
Little Book of Healing:
A Coloring Book For Grief and Loss
Lynea Gillen
Tear Soup
by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen
Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Glenn Ringtved
Book Recommendations
for Adults
It’s OK That You’re not OK
by Megan Devine
How to Go on Living
When Someone You Love Dies
by Therese A. Rando, PhD
I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye
by Brooke Noel and Pamela D Blair, PhD
Bearing the Unbearable
by Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joann Didion
Resilient Grieving
by Lucy Hone, PhD
What Grieving People Wish You Knew
and What Really Helps
(And What Really Hurts)
by Nancy Guthrie
Slamming Open the Door
by Kathleen Sheeder Bonnano
Against the Dying of the Light:
A Parent’s Story of Love, Loss and Hope
by Leonard Fein
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
by David Kessler
The Aftergrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss
by Hope Edelman
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
Grief can be
the garden of compassion.
If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally
in your life's search
for love and wisdom.
Rumi
