Death and Dying

The Adventures of Peighten and Gingerbread: Navigating Cancer Diagnosis and Developing Strategies for Grief by Feryn Heath 
Inner Peace Press, 2024, 26 Pages, Paperback
ISBN: 978-1958150399
 
Based on the relationship between the author & licensed therapist’s daughter, Peighten, & her late grandmother, who passed away after her battle with breast cancer. In the book, Peighten & her puppy Gingerbread educate readers about cancer, death, & grief. Peighten & Gingerbread inform readers of numerous coping strategies to assist children in their feelings of grief within the story & through the included therapeutic activity pages. 
 
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The Fall of Freddie the Leaf By Leo Buscaglia
Henry Holt & Company Inc., 2002, 30 pages
ISBN: 0805071954
Ages: 4 to 8

Originally published in the fall of 1982, the wonderfully wise and strikingly simple story of a leaf named Freddie is one of the most popular books of our times. How Freddie and his companion leaves change with the passing seasons and fall to the ground with a winter's snow, is an inspiring allegory illustrating the delicate balance between life and death.