10 Books To Help Explain Baby Loss And Sibling Loss To Kids

Mommy Says I Have a Brother is designed to open up a conversation with your children about a sibling they may or may not have met, making it easier for them to ask questions and learn about a special person that is no longer here with them.

Perfectly Imperfect Family acknowledges the stigma associated with pregnancy loss, infant death, sibling grief, and including a baby who has died by demonstrating loving ways in which a family can continue to celebrate their beloved baby.

A new book from the author of When Hello Means Goodbye. Created especially for children who are suffering the loss of their family's pregnancy.

Always My Twin is for young children who have experienced the death of their twin sibling, is a book for any child whose twin died before birth, after birth or as a young child.

The story of a mother that sings the same song to her son each night, even when her baby has turned into a raucous teen. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing into her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way. Then, inevitably, the day comes when she's too old and sick to hold him, and the roles are at last reversed.

Where are you Lydie? is a special picture book centred around the subject of sibling loss, sensitively written and illustrated for children between 3 and 7 years old. It is a facilitative story and guide for young children and their parents to explore death and bereavement together and to start those difficult conversations or explore the questions that may come up after the death of a baby in a safe and inspiring space.

Stacy sometimes feels jealous of her new baby sister Ashley, wishing she would go away, but when Ashley dies of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Stacy must find a way to cope with her guilt and with her family's loss.

My Sibling Still is written as a love letter from a sibling lost to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death to any surviving siblings. It walks through the emotions that a child and his or her family may experience following a loss while also depicting the loving presence of the deceased child in the family's life.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal captures parents' desire to be ever-present in this simple and touching poem offering reassurance of their love. Signs of affection can be found in the natural world around us – from a soft breeze to a shimmering star.

A young girl experiences jealousy when her brother is born, then anxiety and sadness when he dies. In a dream, she flies to the moon to bring him back and make her parents happy again.