Rebecca Cobb(Macmillan Children’s Books) Some time ago we said goodbye to Mummy.I am not sure where she has gone. So begins the story in Missing Mummy, a powerful story with a little boy’s journey through grief, understanding and finally acceptance of his mother’s passing at its heart. This heart wrenching story presents the loss of a parent from a child’s …
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The Scar
Charlotte Moundlic (text) & Olivier Tallec (illustrations)translated from the French(Walker Books) When his mother dies of what appears to have been a long illness, a little boy is left alone with his grief-stricken father, and struggling to make sense of the void that his mother’s passing has left behind. He closes the windows so the …
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher(Orion) Five years ago, Jamie’s sister Rose was killed during a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks in London. Overcome by grief, the family has fallen apart: his mum has left the family for a man whom she has met at a victims’ support group, his dad does nothing but drink all day and Rose’s twin …