The Healing Book: Facing the Death and Celebrating the Life of Someone You Love

My 6 year old granddaughter lost the man who was her bonus dad. He died suddenly, shortly after he and her mother had split up and the relationship was amicable and they were learning how to co-parent. My granddaughter is sad and confused. This book allows her to both celebrate him and work through her feelings.

This book was recommended to me by a friend after my husband passed suddenly and unexpectedly. I bought one for my son (6) and one for my daughter (8). We go through the book together at the kitchen table and discuss it together. It is incredible to do this and gives good direction on addressing grief and missing a loved one. I highly recommend it when trying to help kids articulate and understand their feelings after a loss.

This book was recommended to me for my children who just lost a loved one. I think it is such a perfect book that helps them go through their feelings, celebrate their loved ones life, and grieve. It is an activity book that they write in, put pictures in, and use as a journal. Best for kids over 5....

I liked that it had spaces for the person to write how he/she feeels. However, I think it may be very frustrating to answer some the questions about the loved one if they are no longer with us.

The Healing Book is a memory book that is designed to help children and teens who have experienced the death of someone close to them. It is a place to remember and celebrate the life of someone who has died, while at the same time exploring the complicated and often scary questions that kids have about death. The Healing Book uses real language such as died and death, rather than euphemisms like loss or passed. This is very important because grieving children and teens need real words and real language to help them come to terms with the death of someone they love. This book is very hands on, with a lot of spaces for kids to write down how they're feeling and what they're experiencing. It is very detailed, colorful and well written. It paves the way for children to have ongoing discussions about the person who died and also discussions about why people die in the first place. I highly recommend this book!

This was one of two books I purchased to help my friend's children grieve and remember their mother. This book is wonderful at helping children explore and express their feelings. It reassures them that any feelings they might be having right now are okay. I absolutely love that this book can also serve as a keepsake.I bought this at Barnes & Nobles for 16.95 + tax, but if I could have waited I would have purchased it here at the lower price.I highly recommend this book for a grieving child that is old enough to read and write on their own. I think it could also help open conversation for the greiving family.

As a Teaching Assistant in a primary school and, having completed a Bereavement for Children course, I have found this book to be extremely useful. I filled parts of it in with a ten year old boy, whose Grandfather had recently died. They had been very close and he was finding it difficult to cope and to talk about it. This book gave him the opening to talk, if he wanted to but to also do something practical, that he could keep, in memory of the good times he and his Grandfather had shared together. After a few weeks he seemed much more accepting of the death and happily took the book home, to add more things to and to share with his parents. it has been such a useful book that the school has now ordered two more so we can always have them available.