My Grief Comfort Book

Liebevoll gestaltet und eigentlich für Kinder, ist es auch für Erwachsene geeignet. Viel Farbe in Wort und Bild, vermittelt es Freude und Kraft in einer schwierigen Zeit. Kleine Aufgaben helfen mit der Auseinandersetzung von Verlust und Trauer. Ein wundervolles Buch.

My Grief Comfort Book is a non-fiction book about grief that allows children the safe space to explore their emotions.
Bereavement is difficult for everyone, and for children, the first few times they experience grief can be extra difficult.
This book, coupled with soothing and relatable pictures, offers prompts, tips, activities and understanding for children (and adults) experiencing loss.
I am not qualified to offer any remarks about the scientific-quality of the advice offered however, based on my personal and professional experiences, this is a suitable, and lovely book that encourages children to process their grief. The colour palette and the font types are lovely.

I loved going through this book with my younger sister after we recently lost two close relatives. I feel that she related to the workbook and that she found comfort in it. Thankyou Brie Overton for making an impossible situation slightly easier.

An important healing resource for children who have lost someone important. Filled with helpful activities, prompts, letter writing exercises, the making of keepsakes, and more. A treasure!

This book has simple activities that seem like they would help, that a kid could do on their own or have a parent help them with. No specific age range — would work for a kid from the age of maybe 5 to a tween. The illustrations are lovely and inclusive (in terms of race, disability, and gender). Overall I think this is a strong buy, especially considering how hard it is to find books about grief to kids. Some of the art activities are really cool and I’m thinking about how they could work as library programs.

Thanks to Netgalley for the eARC.

I found doing this activity book very cathartic. Even though I'm not the target audience, being a 20 year old doing a childrens activity book to help process grief, but even i took some very important techniques and tools to process grief in a good and productive way. It includes both things your child can do on their own, but also things you, as a trusted adult, can have a part in. I wish my parents would've invested in something like this when i went through the loss of loved ones when i was younger.

I highly suggest getting the physical copy of the book so that you can take use of the large array of interactive parts of the book, such as poetry cards and stickers for some of the activities.

Thank you so much to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me a copy of this book in exchange mfor an honest review.

Thoughts:
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. This is an amazing little book, it contains a lot of great ideas to help children work their way through their own grief and the adults around them understand how grief is affecting them. There is also a lot in the back of the book to help with the activities such as paper bag pinata and poetry scramble words which is a great help since it's easy for our minds to go blank when put on the spot.

Favourite Quote:
"You may feel sad, lonely, hurt, angry, worried, happy, or upset. All of those emotions are part of grief, and all of them are welcome. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, and you will experience your own unique grief journey."

I love everything about this book! I got it for my 5 year old who lost her grandma (my mother) 1 year ago. She keeps asking about her every other day and these activities really helped her work through what she feels inside and it helped her realise and appreciate a lot of things. Highly recommend!

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and it’s a great book for kids - and adults - to work through grief in a creative way. As a bereavement counsellor there are definitely techniques I use with already and some I have made a note on for the future. I think the added resources and stickers make it a really nice buy for a bereaved young person. There really is a lot of benefit in creative work.

Lovely workbook / activity book dealing with children’s grief. Would recommend ELSA, Nurture, Welfare practitioners read for perspective & ideas on how to speak to children in bereavement sessions, great ideas for activity based learning too.