Goodbye Grandpa: The Sympathy Gift Series

Goodbye Grandpa: The Sympathy Gift Series
Author: Denise Gibb
Publisher: Sympathy Gift
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780648544654

Goodbye Grandpa is a beautiful real-life storybook. Offering comforting photographs and colorful illustrations, this book gently narrates what happens after Grandpa dies. While younger children will relate to the illustrations, older children will find deeper meaning in the photographs. Altogether, this soft approach invites tender and honest conversations about Grandpa's death. Plus, Goodbye Grandpa balances the sadness of grief with activities to encourage doing, talking and sharing until everyone in the family finds their way back to happiness. Suitable for adults and children 4+

Goodbye Grandpa

Goodbye Grandpa
Author: Denise Gibb
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780648544692

Goodbye Grandma: The Sympathy Gift Series

Goodbye Grandma: The Sympathy Gift Series
Author: Denise Gibb
Publisher: Sympathy Gift
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780648544647

Goodbye Grandma is a beautiful real-life storybook. Offering comforting photographs and colorful illustrations, this book gently narrates what happens after Grandma dies. While younger children will relate to the illustrations, older children will find deeper meaning in the photographs. Altogether, this soft approach invites tender and honest conversations about Grandma's death. Plus, Goodbye Grandma balances the sadness of grief with activities to encourage doing, talking and sharing until everyone in the family finds their way back to happiness. Suitable for adults and children 4+

Saying Goodbye to Daddy

Saying Goodbye to Daddy
Author: Judith Vigna
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1990-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807572543

Frightened, lonely, and angry after her father is killed in a car accident, Clare is helped through the grieving process by her mother and grandfather.

Goodbye, Grandpa

Goodbye, Grandpa
Author: Jelleke Rijken
Publisher: Clavis
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018-07
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781605373737

"Thoughtful adults can use this simple book with its heartfelt text and solemn, cartoon animals to explain death to young children." - Kirkus Reviews Bear and Grandpa are going fishing today. But why is Grandpa sleeping in the grass? What is going on? "Grandpa is dead," Elephant says softly to his friend Bear. Bear starts to cry. Will he ever see Grandpa again? Chicken and Elephant comfort their friend and explain to him that Grandpa will be with him forever. They say goodbye to him in a beautiful way. A sensitive and honest story about loss, grief and friendship. For children ages 4 and up.

Goodbye Grandma

Goodbye Grandma
Author: Denise Gibb
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780648544685

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-01-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393246744

“Read it. You will be uplifted.”—Ruth Ozeki, Zen priest, author of A Tale for the Time Being Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. As Japan mourned thousands of people lost in the disaster, Mockett also grieved for her American father, who had died unexpectedly. Seeking consolation, Mockett is guided by a colorful cast of Zen priests and ordinary Japanese who perform rituals that disturb, haunt, and finally uplift her. Her journey leads her into the radiation zone in an intricate white hazmat suit; to Eiheiji, a school for Zen Buddhist monks; on a visit to a Crab Lady and Fuzzy-Headed Priest’s temple on Mount Doom; and into the "thick dark" of the subterranean labyrinth under Kiyomizu temple, among other twists and turns. From the ecstasy of a cherry blossom festival in the radiation zone to the ghosts inhabiting chopsticks, Mockett writes of both the earthly and the sublime with extraordinary sensitivity. Her unpretentious and engaging voice makes her the kind of companion a reader wants to stay with wherever she goes, even into the heart of grief itself.

Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593320816

From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2011-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307957330

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

When Your Grandparent Dies

When Your Grandparent Dies
Author: Victoria Ryan
Publisher: Abbey Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780870293641

Presents a children's story that helps children recover from the loss of a grandparent and provides guidance on working through the grieving process.