Selected Literature
There are many books to talk to children about their feelings, illness, dying, death or grief.
Not every book fits into every family. To better find out which book might suit you, please feel free to contact us.
We have put together a small selection of possible books for you on this page.
Hospice testimonials
Brother dear
- Marian Gray
- Edenbooks
The grassbiter gang
Bringing death back to life
- Susan and Karsten
- Stanberger / SCEN Zeitwertverlag
The improbability of love
- AJ Betts
- Fischer, also as an audio book
matters of the heart
Stories from the children's hospice Berliner Herz
- Anne Edler-Scherpe
- Mabuse
place there, I live
- Peter prange
- pendo
Children, parents or grandparents are ill –
talk to children about illness and death
The Queen and I
- Udo Weigelt
- FISCHER
One for all, all for one!
- Brigitte Weninger
- mine edition
A suitcase full of mom
- Anya Freudiger
- BALANCE book
I now have the same hairstyle as grandpa
- Catherine Feldhaus
- Patmos publishing house
Leo's dad has cancer
- Sabine Bruetting
- BALANCE book
Lotte and the chemo guys
- Sonja Marshal
- Patmos publishing house
Grandma, how much cancer do you have today?
- Daniela Draeger
Superhero
- Anthony McCarten
- Diogenes
How about the cancer?
- dr Sarah Roxana Herlofsen
- Gabriel publisher
talk about feelings
The soul bird
- Michael Snunit
- carlsen
The bond of feelings
- Clemens Fobian
- Marta Press UG
Domino and Fear
- Monica Wieber
- iskopress
Today I am
- Mies van Hout
- aracari publisher
In my little heart
- Jo Witek
- FISCHER Sauerland
death of a child
Farewell to Rune
- Wenche Oyen & Marit Kaldhol
- ellermann
Benjamin
- Elfi Nijssen & Eline van Lindenhuizen
- Patmos
Hannah and I
- Bettina Wegenast
- Patmos
My Nicholas
- by Claudia Schäble & Thomas van Vugt
- didactus
Death of an adult/grandparent/neighbor
A heaven for grandma
- Antony Schneider
- Coppenrath
A star named Mama
- Karen Susan Fessel
- kid in balance
i think about you so much
- My consolation book
- Erwin Grosche
- Butzon & Bercker
No more Grandma Lina Day
- Hermione Stellmacher
- Esslingen publishing house
dad, can you hear me
- Tamara Bosch
- free mental life
And what comes after a thousand?
- Annette Bley
- Ravensburger
Where are you going, grandpa?
- Brigitte Enders
- aracari
death of an animal
grandfather's star
- Jean Marie Robillard
- Ink drinker publisher
Little fox, big sky
- Bridget Werner
- free mental life
Mika's heaven
- Bibi Dumon Tak
- Gestenberg
Tomorrow I am starlight
- Sandra Dieckmann
- lion publishing house
philosophize and more
…I promise to you
- Eve Thallet
- mine edition
The lion in you
- Rachel Bright
- Magellan
Here we are
- Oliver Jeffers
- North South Publisher
Somehow different
- Kathryn Cave
- Oetinger
Kotzmotz the magician
- Bridget Werner
- Free mental life
Perhaps
- SME Yamada
- Adrian & Wimmelbuchverlag
What color is a kiss?
- Rocio Bonilla
- Jumbo Publisher
Who has a normal family?
- Belinda Novell
- Carl Auer Publishing
How the little pink elephant was very sad once and how he got well again
- Monica Weitze
- Bohem Press