Books

New Book to Help Parents!

Our founding board member Phyllis Silverman has a new book called A Parent’s Guide to Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family After the Death of  a Loved One which she wrote with Madelyn Kelly.  If you order the book through us for $30, we will send you a copy of the book plus give the book to a grieving parent who comes to our orientation.  Buy one, give one.  Helping others is what we are about.  To Buy One and Give One, make a $30 (plus $3 shipping and handling) or more donation and make sure that you write in the note section that you are giving a book to a family.

We Have a Lending Library and an Active Library Committee

Volunteers at The Children’s Room have created an extensive library of books for children, teens, and adults.  A small sample of recommended books is here.  If you purchase a book by clicking on the icon below, The Children’s Room will get a small payment from Amazon.  Thanks for your support.

Our board member, Phyllis Silverman has published many books on the subject of child grief and widowhood.  Her latest book is Never Too Young to Know which “challenges many longstanding and erroneous beliefs about how children grieve and how they feel.”  Phyllis Rolfe Silverman is Professor Emerita at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health and an Associate in Social Welfare in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH, Harvard Medical School. She is also Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Harvard/MGH Child Bereavement Study.

• Lifetimes is a classic book that writes about the life cycles of living things.
• 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child is a practical guide by The Dougy Center in Oregon, the pioneer in children’s support groups.
• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby is THE book for families after the death of an infant or a misscarriage or stillbirth.
• Michael Rosen’s Sad Book is an award-winning book written by a poet after the death of his teenage son.  The picture book is appropriate for older children (8+).  It gets you from the first page when the illustration shows Michael with a big smile and the caption, “this is me being sad…I’m doing that because I think people won’t like me if I look sad.”
• After a Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal is a highly recommended book for parents as well as teachers or anyone who wants to help a child after a parent’s suicide.
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion is an award-winningbook the chronicle this writer’s first year after the sudden death of her husband and during the illness of her only child.