The mystery of life and death: GRIEF AND LOSS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS I explored grief and loss in children’s books. I’ve chosen examples to show that execute different levels of intensity communicating death and sensitivity about loss. Margaret Mead asserted that “children who have been told the truth about birth and death will know … that this is a truth of a different kind.” “…And hardly children — those
yet we tell — nor ourselves truths…”