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Let’s Talk About When Someone Dies

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From Molly Potter, best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today? and What’s Worrying You?, comes a picture book for starting conversations with children about death, bereavement and what happens next.

When someone dies, we can feel a whole host of different emotions and explaining them to a child isn’t so easy. This book uses clear, easy-to-understand language to answer complex questions about death and how a child might feel when someone dies. It covers all manner of tricky subjects with sensitivity and honesty, from what death is to why people die.

Each double page spread takes a child through how they might feel, what they might think and how they might behave. With engaging illustrations, gentle guidance and simple advice for parents and carers, Let’s Talk About When Someone Dies fulfils an important but difficult need for starting conversations with children about death and bereavement, in an accessible and supportive way.

Let’s Talk books help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Written by an expert and covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussion right from the start.

This title is currently featured as a Spotlight in partnership with the publisher and has been reviewed by our independent expert panel.

Our Review Panel says...

Part of the Molly Potter ‘Let’s Talk’ series, this useful book takes a matter-of-fact approach to bereavement, using language appropriate for the primary age group. It is an important addition to the many children’s books on this topic that are metaphor-based; this text provides an honest, factual and straight-to-the-point guide to approaching the death of a loved one. It answers practical questions such as ‘What might you feel when someone dies?’ and ‘What happens at a funeral?’ in age appropriate ways without being patronising.

The book recognises that there are different views on what happens after death without offering an opinion. It is a brilliant tool for adults to read together with children facing the prospect of recent or future bereavement. The book also provides a framework for adults to know how to broach the subject, with extra guidance for parents and caregivers in the back.

With a lovely section at the end on ways to remember the person who died, this is a vital resource for every school’s toolkit.

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