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    What Happens When Someone Dies?: A Child's Guide to Death and Funerals
    What Happens When Someone Dies?: A Child's Guide to Death and Funerals
    What Happens When Someone Dies?: A Child's Guide to Death and Funerals
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    What Happens When Someone Dies?: A Child's Guide to Death and Funerals

    By R. W. Alley and Michaelene Mundy

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    The author of the top-selling Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss here helps children as they first experience the reality—and the mystery—of death and funerals. She carefully explains to children how we celebrate the life of a departed one through both sadness and joy. A sampling of the titles of the various booklet sections: Why Do People Die? Does It Hurt to Die? What Happens at the Funeral Home? What Will It Be Like at the Church Service? What Happens at the Cemetery? What Can I Do About My Sad Feelings? What Will Heaven Be Like? When Will Everything Be OK Again? Through her experience as a counselor, teacher, mother, and accomplished children’s author, Michaelene Mundy here offers a loving and truly helpful guide for kids.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781497696594
    What Happens When Someone Dies?: A Child's Guide to Death and Funerals
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    R. W. Alley

    R. W. Alley has illustrated a number of books featuring Paddington Bear. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife, author Zoë B. Alley.

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      What Happens When Someone Dies? - R. W. Alley

      A Message to Parents, Teachers,

      and Other Caring Adults

      Can you recall the first time you attended a funeral? What memories are most vivid to you? What impressions do you remember? The same issues will undoubtedly be going through the minds of the children you are concerned about when they are confronted with death and funerals.

      I remember being more upset seeing my mother crying than anything else. Children need to be reassured that, while people are sad that someone will no longer be there to hug and to hug us back, our own love and care for the child is still present. And the care and love for us from the departed person will always

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