Room for Rabbit – Roni Schotter DIVORCE (non-fiction): Divorce is Not the End of the World – Zoe Stern The Divorce Workbook for Children – Lisa Schab For Better, For Worse: A Guide to Surviving Divorce – Janet Bode Help! A Girl’s Guide to Divorce and Stepfamilies (American Girl) – Nancy Holyoke How Do I Feel It: My Parent’s Divorce – Julie Cole How It When Parents Divorce – Jill Krementz My Grandma Died: A Child’s Story about Death and Loss – Lory Britain My Parents are Divorced Too – Melanie, Annie and Steven Ford A Smart Girl’s Guide to her Parent’s Divorce (American Girl) – Nancy Holyoke Taking the “Duh” Out of Divorce – Trevor Romain (also a DVD) What in the World Do You Do When Your Parents Divorce? – Kent Winchester and Roberta Beyer When My Parents Forgot How to be Friends – Jennifer Moore-Malinos When Parents Get Divorced – William Coleman When Parents Separate – Pete Sanders and Steve Myers The Survival Guide – Lisa Cohn GRIEF/LOSS (picture books): Badger’s Parting – Susan Varley Can You Hear Me Smiling – Ariane Jackson Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories – Audrey Penn Christmas Tree Memories – Aliki Everett Anderson’s Goodbye – Lucille Clifton Gentle Willow – Joyce Mills Geranium Morning – E. Sandy Powell Goodbye Boat – Mary Joslin Liplap’s Wish – Jonathon London and Sylvia Long The Most Special Bear – Bonita Mason Old Pig – Margaret Wild A Place in my Heart – Annette Aubrey The Purple Balloon – Raschka The Rag Coat – Lauren Miles Remembering Crystal – Sebastian Loth Samantha Jane’s Missing Smile – Julie Kaplow and Donna Pincus Saying Good-bye to Uncle Joe: What to Expect When Someone You Love Dies – Nancy Loewen Sky Memories – Pat Brisson Some of the Pieces – Melissa Madenski Someone Special Died – Joan Prestine A Story for Hippo – Simon Puttock and Alison Bartlett What Happens When We Die? – Carolyn Nystrom What’s Heaven? – Maria Shriver
When Dinosaurs Die – Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown Where Do People Go When They Die? – Mindy Avra Portnoy You Hold Me, I’ll Hold You – Jo Carson Death of Sibling: Always My Brother – Jean Reagan Death of Grandparent: Saying Good-bye to Grandma – Jane Resh Thomas Grandma’s Gloves – Castellucci Grandpa Loved – Josephine Nebisso Nana Upstairs Nana Downstairs – Tommie DePaola Why Did Grandma Die? – Barbara Hazen Why Did Grandpa Die? – Barbara Hazen Death of Friend: I Had a Friend Named Peter – Janice Cohen Rudi’s Pond – Eve Bunting Loss of Pet: Cat Heaven – Cynthia Rylant Dog Heaven – Cynthia Rylant The Forever Dog – Bill Cochran Good-bye Jeepers: What to Expect When your Pet Dies – Nancy Loewen Goodbye Mousie – Robie Harris Goodbye Sheepie – Robert Burleigh I Remember – Jennifer Moore-Malinos I’ll Always Love You – Hans Wilhelm Jim’s Dog Muffins – Miriam Cohen Katie Woo’s Goodbye to Goldie – Fran Manushkin Mending Peter’s Heart – Maureen Wittbold Remembering Pets – Gina Dalpra-Berman The Tenth Good Thing about Barney – Judith Viorst Up in Heaven – Emma Chichester Clark GRIEF/LOSS (non-fiction): After You Lose Someone You Love – Amy Dennison Help Me Say Goodbye – Janis Silverman How it Feels When a Parent Dies – Jill Krementz Learning to Say Good-bye: When a Parent Dies – Eda LeShan Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children – Bryon Mellonie and Robert Ingpen Loss and How to Cope With It – Joanne Bernstein Sad Isn’t Bad – Michaelene Mundy
Saying Goodbye – Joan Boulden Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers – Earl Grollman What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? – Trevor Romain (also a DVD) Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One – William Kroen Helping Children Grieve – Theresa Huntley DEALING WITH ILLNESS (picture Brushing Mom’s Hair – Andrea Cheng Emma’s Question – Catherine Urdahl Mom Has Cancer – Jennifer Moore-Malinos Promises – Elizabeth Winthrop Punk Wig – Lori Ries Sammy’s Mom Has Cancer – Sherry Kohlenberg When a Parent is Very Sick – Eda LaShan When Mommy Is Sick – Ferne Sherkin-Langer Where’s Mom’s Hair? – Debbie Watters with Hayden and Emmett Watters Why, Charlie Brown, Why? – Charles Schulz You Are the Best Medicine – Aigner Clark INCARCERATION: Mama Me from Away – Pat Brisson The Night Dad Went to Jail – Melissa Higgins DEPLOYMENT: Love Lizzie: Letters to a Military Mom – Lisa Tucker McElroy My Big Brother – Miriam Cohen