Grief Support Resources
Use these resources to help with grief, emotional support and financial support. You can also call the Nationwide Children’s Spiritual Care office at (614) 722-5250.
Online Resources
- Sesame Workshop: Grief
- Dougy Center
- NACG National
- Coalition to Support Grieving Students
- Courageous Parents Network
- Learning Grief
- Speaking Grief (Supporting others who are grieving)
Book List
All books listed may still be appropriate for ages over their listed developmental age-range.
Where’s Jess?
By Marvin Johnson
1-5 years old
Remembering Blue Fish (Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood)
By Becky Friedman and Jason Fruchter
2-5+ years old
Something Very Sad Happened: A Toddler’s Guide to Understanding Death
by Bonnie Zucker and Kim Fleming
2-5+ years old
The Goodbye Book
by Todd Parr
2-5+ years old
The Invisible String
by Patrice Karst and Joanne Lew-Vriethoff
3-10+ years old
Always Remember
by Cece Meng and Jago
3-10+ years old
I Miss You A First Look at…Series
by Pat Thomas and Lesley Harker
4-9+ years old
We Will Meet Again in Jannah: What a Great Day That Will Be!
by Zamir Hussain and Emily McCann
4-10+ years old
Hamza Attends a Janaza
by Shabana Hussain and Atefah Mohammadzadeh
4-10+ years old
The Memory Box: A Book About Grief
by Joanna Rowland and Thea Baker
3-7+ years old
What Does Grief Feel Like?
by Korie Leigh and Mike Malbrough
4-10+ years old
Goodbye: A First Conversation About Grief (First Conversations)
by Megan Madison
5-10+ years old
A Kids Book About Grief
by Brennan Wood
5-10+ years old
Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies
by Janis Silverman
5-10+ years old
The Grief Rock: A Book to Understand Grief and Love
by Natasha Daniels and Lily Fossett
6-12+ years old
Death is Stupid (Ordinary Terrible Things)
by Anastasia Higginbotham
7-10+ years old
Sunflower Promise
by Kathleen Maresh Hemery and Augusto Bordelois
9-13+ years old
The ABCs of Grief: A Children’s Grief Book For All Types of Loss and Grief
by CCLS Jessica Correnti, MS and Rachel Nieman
5-13+ years old
Fire in My Heart, Ice in My Veins: A Guided Grief Journal for Teenagers and Young Adults
by Enid Samuel Traisman and Janet Roberts
11+ years old
