Gentle, research-based books for children and families facing serious illness, hospice, and grief. These books are available as printed paperbacks on Amazon. Most are also free to download as a PDF. You can find all our free printables in our free printables catalog.
Storybooks for Young Children
Read-aloud picture books for ages 3 to 7, set in the same gentle riverbank world. Each includes a note for grown-ups.
The Pebble in My Pocket
Ages 3 to 7, when a grandpa or loved one dies after a long illness.
Ollie the otter’s grandpa gives him a striped pebble that helps him carry Grandpa with him every day.
What We Plant With Love
Ages 3 to 7, when a grandma or loved one dies after an illness.
Hazel the hedgehog plants Grandma’s sunflower seeds, and learns that what we plant with love keeps growing.
Books for Families
Free to download as a PDF, or order a printed paperback on Amazon. The price covers printing and binding.
The Time We Have
Parents helping children and teens when someone is in hospice.
What to say, how kids understand dying, and how to include them in the time that’s left.
Our Time Together
Children 4 to 11, to make with someone they love who is very sick.
A book to fill in side by side: favorite things, stories, drawings, and words to keep.
The Time In Between
Teens 12 to 18 when someone they love is in hospice.
A private journal for the waiting: hard feelings, things to say, and memories to keep.
Carrying You With Me
Children after someone they love dies of an illness.
A workbook and journal for big feelings, memories, and questions.
Carrying Their Love
Widows, widowers, and grieving partners.
A grief companion for life after losing your person, written by a widow who has walked this road too.
Everything They’ll Need to Know
Anyone planning ahead, and families in the first days after a loss.
A guide and fill-in planner for your goodbye and everything your family will need to find: bills, policies, the house, kids, pets, and more.
For Veterans and Their Families
Free PDFs and printed paperbacks for veterans of every branch and era.
Honor and Memory
Veterans facing a serious illness or in hospice, and their families.
Their story, letters to family, and wishes for honors and burial, a few minutes at a time.
Honor and Memory: A Veteran’s Story Journal
Veterans of every era, at any stage of life, and their families.
A guided journal to pass down their service, wisdom, and words. A meaningful Veterans Day gift.
Comfort and support resources, not a substitute for professional care. In a crisis, call or text 988. Veterans: dial 988, then press 1.