Hazel and the Snails by Nan Blanchard
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
Six-year-old Hazel tends her colony of shoebox snails while observing, with varying degrees of understanding, her father's illness and final decline. Nan Blanchard's assured eye is a rare quality in a new writer; seldom has the world of a young child been so delicately or acutely observed. Impending los ...Show more
How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
$22.99 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
'A BOOK AS FIERCE, TENDER, AND RARE AS ITS APTLY NAMED HEROINE, TIGER.'-- Meg Leder, author of Letting Go of Gravity It's the brightest day of summer and it's dark outside. It's dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart.Here is ...Show more
Huhu Koroheke (Old Hu-Hu Maori) by Kyle Mewburn (tr to Maori Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira)
$18.99 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori
Everyone loved Old Hu-Hu. But nobody loved him quite as much as little Hu-Hu-Tu. Old Hu-Hu is a thoughtful tale of young Hu-Hu-Tu's search for understanding of what has happened to his beloved Old Hu-Hu, who flew all the way to the moon (or so they said), then fell down dead. Sensitively written, this i ...Show more
I Wish I Could Hold Your Hand A Child's Guide to Grief and Loss by Pat Palmer; Dianne O. Burke (Illustrator)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
A best friend has moved away...Dad no longer lives with the family... A favorite relative or pet has died. This warm and comforting book gently helps the grieving child identify his or her feelings--from denial and anger to guilt and sadness--and learn to accept and deal with them. Expressive illustrati ...Show more
If All the World Were... by Joseph Coelho
$14.99 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
A moving, poetic picture book about a young girl's love for her granddad and how she copes when his grandad dies, written by poet and playwright Joe Coelho. This powerful and ultimately uplifting text is the ideal way to introduce children to the concept of death and dying, particularly those who have l ...Show more
Milly, Molly and Jimmy's Seeds by Gill Pittar
$8.94 NZD
$14.90 (40% off)
Category: Death and Grieving | Series: Milly and Molly
An unexpected surprise helps Milly and Molly cope with the loss of a friend.
Mum's Jumper by Jayde Perkin
$33.99 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
If Mum has gone, how do you carry on? Missing her feels like a dark cloud that follows you around, or like swimming to a shore that never comes any nearer. But memories are like a jumper that you can cuddle and wear. And Mum's Jumper might be a way to keep her close. ...Show more
My Big Fantastic Family by Adam Guillain & Charlotte Guillain
$27.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A funny and moving story about how a little girl copes with change after her parents separate.
New Year by Mei Zihan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Age range 9 to 12. A moving picture book to read when we’re missing family far away, set during Lunar New Year.It’s Lunar New Year, a time when families come together for a wonderful feast, and a father longs to be with his daughter — but she lives in another country. As he imagines how his daughter is ...Show more
One Photo (PB) by Ross Watkins, Liz Anelli
$17.99 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
Dad came home one day with one of those old cameras, the kind that use film. But Dad didn't take photos of the regular things people photograph . . .Told in stunning prose, with creative heart-warming illustrations, this book is a celebration of what we hold closest to our hearts.
Something Very Sad Happened: A Toddler's Guide to Understanding Death by Bonnie Zucker
$32.99 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
When a loved one dies, it can be hard to know how to explain it to a young child, particularly if you are grieving the loss yourself. Sensitively written and gently illustrated, Something Very Sad Happened explains death in developmentally appropriate terms for two-and three-year-old childern. It reassu ...Show more
Te Wai, Tama and the Moon by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
$22.00 NZD
Category: Death and Grieving
Te Wai's mum is seriously ill, and Tama's mum struggles to make ends meet, but Te Wai's got a big imagination and is determined to make the day better. The friends plan a trip to the moon, and they wait at the bus stop for the spaceship. Each time the bus arrives, someone they know gets off, and they sh ...Show more