This book collects four essays drawn from years of working with the dying and learning from them what life is all about.

Presents guidance on various aspects of childhood loss, from dealing with somebody who is dying to explaining concepts of death to a young child, preparing a funeral, and learning where to get help from friends, therapists, and bereavement groups, with quotes from real conversations between parents and their children.

The Pilgrim Press revised its Looking Up series, to reflect contemporary times. This book in the series helps parents explain death to children by using the metaphor of insects that change form.

This is the story of life and how important we all are and how hard it is to let go in the end. The story follows Bud, who starts out in life as a tiny bud -- he feels insignificant. But Bud grows into a beautiful, vibrant leaf on the Mighty Oak Tree and becomes a very important part of the tree. This book explains to children and reminds adults that death is an important part of life.

Losing a grandparent is often a child's first experience with grief. The ordeal can be as bewildering as it is painful. Explaining what happens from a child's-eye view, the little elves in this book depict the difficult days before, after, and beyond a grandparent's death. They explore the meaning of death and heaven, as well as how to stay close in spirit with a grandparent who has died. With ideas for action and questions for discussion, this creative...

Connie has never believed in fairies. So she's amazed when Ruby, a tiny fairy-girl, suddenly appears in the library of the old house where Connie is staying. Ruby says that she is a book fairy -- but that she is in terrible trouble. She has been banished from fairyland until she finds a ruby ring, which she has lost. Can Connie help Ruby find the missing ring -- before the doorway to fairyland is closed forever?

A young girl recalls her visits with her grandmother during each season of the year, until the winter when she dies.

"When a young boy's grandfather dies suddenly, he feels overwhelmed and confused. They will never see each other again. To his delight, they meet again in a dream, where his grandfather takes him to Transfer City, where our departed loved ones live on through our memories. In this modern, Eastern telling of the afterlife, death is not an ending, but a new start to life, just like the Immortal Jellyfish which is constantly maturing and then regressing,...