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When I’m Gone: A Picture Book About Grief

Book Synopsis

When someone you love has died there will be sad days and angry days but also happy days and fun days.

Nobody lives forever … and some wish they could have stayed for longer …

This sensitively-written and deeply-moving picture book will help children grieve, celebrate and learn how to live and love life when a parent is gone.

With expert advice from the charity, Child Bereavement UK.

Our Review Panel says...

Written sensitively and illustrated beautifully, this book gently takes the reader (a child of any age) by the hand and helps them understand that when someone leaves us, that person didn’t choose to do so and a part of them will always live on in the memories and love that they shared. The book gently encourages readers that it is okay to feel different emotions and for those emotions to be displayed in different ways. Written with the support of Child Bereavement UK, with useful tips at the back of the book for supporting a child (or grown-up) going through the bereavement process. Death is often difficult for us to talk about, but this book will hopefully pave the way for those necessary conversations to happen.

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