Use the fans to choose phrases and draw a body shape for pupils to add words or phrases to how they feel inside. With Gerda’s support, Bertle starts to remember his friend, and eventually, the black hole is filled with happy memories. Grief can be due to many reasons such as death, divorce, someone leaving, a friend moving away, illness, end of a relationship, life changing illness and so on. The narrative is open-ended—Hertle is just “gone” one day—so readers in many situations will be able to relate. However, like you and your family, and Gertle in the story, I am gradually filling the hole with love and memories.

Een goed boek over een goed thema, maar ik had toch graag willen weten wat er nou met Haas was gebeurd dat zij verdwenen was.This moving picture book can be used as part of a gentle conversation about death and grief with children. Mas o luto e a perda não tem de ser significado de esquecimento e os momentos que juntos vivemos ficam para sempre no nosso coração e dão cor ao vazio que ficou no lugar da pessoa que partiu! Knowing what these stages are and how the pupil is experiencing them will give a better understanding of themselves and their unique experience. Our next three sheets are writing prompts, but you can also use them as discussion ideas as well for your children to talk about times that we have lost things, and the final image within the book, which gives you some clues as to how Gerda understands what Bertle is going through.

Then, one day, Bertle finds that he’s alone except for a dark, Hertle-shaped shadow: “a hole in the air where a hare ought to be. Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. From drawing exercises to writing prompts, these worksheets provide a safe space for children to explore their emotions and share their thoughts about loss. Don’t forget to check out our guide on how to help kids with grief from them on site alongside these worksheets. Are they thankful for the outings they had, the walks in the woods, the special birthday cake, the hugs and kisses and so on.They can wear their bracelet and take their memories around with them just like Bertle did at the end of the book where he went home with his memories hand in hand. VisitStroud enables you to find businesses, food, accommodation, places to go and local events - all together in one place. Renata witnesses the birth of four chicks as their rosy eggs split open “like coats that are suddenly too small.

The book helps children to understand that there is a painful space created when we loss someone, or something, whether that is through death, or just someone moving on. Rather than seeing it as an unfortunate delay of their project, Renata and Papi decide to let the avian carpenters continue their work.Renata finds at a crucial moment that she can help the chicks learn to fly, even with the bittersweet knowledge that it will only hasten their exits from her life. This beautiful book tells the story of a brave hare facing a challenging journey — one that involves loss and the process of healing. When Bertle asks why Hertle had to go, Gerda responds that though sometimes those we love must leave us, we can fill the hole that’s left behind with memories of the good times. As a bereaved mother of (at the time) young children whose sibling had died, and 23 years on as someone who provides grief guidance for people going through loss, through bereavement, divorce, diagnosis and many major life changes, I have stacks of excellent bereavement books on my desk, both fiction and non-fiction and I match my clients to those which might resonate for their individual and unique grief.

It helps children to accept these emotions and learn to understand we can ease the sadness by remembering special things about whatever, or whomever we have lost. Sometimes they can be ok and feeling happy playing and then something reminds them of the person or pet that has gone.A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. John Dougherty was born in Larne, Northern Ireland, and not many years later they made him go to school - an experience he didn't find entirely enjoyable.