Books for Kids ... about grief
A Terrible Thing Happened - A story for children who have witnessed violence or trauma
Margaret M. Holmes, Sasha Mudlaff, & Carry Pillo. This book is perfect for helping children who have experienced trauma understand their feelings, consciously and subconsciously. It uses a fun character to show different emotions that children have after witnessing or being a part of something that is traumatic to them. The book does not tell what the character witnessed. As a result of this, it can apply to a number of situations. This book also helps children to realize that it helps to talk about what is bothering them. 
Children Also Grieve: Talking About Death And Healing
Linda Goldman. Written to be read by adults to children, each page provides an opportunity for discussion about normal feelings such as guilt, fear, shame, and anger. Told through the eyes of Henry, the family dog, ideas for creating a memory book are presented in a workbook format. Reading a page or two with a grieving child each evening would be a caring and educational replacement for bedtime stories, until the child is ready to move on. 
Daddy, Up and Down: Sisters Grieve the Loss of Their Daddy
Lila Stenson, Anna Stenson, and Melanie Friedersdorf Humphrey. Although dealing quite honestly with death, it is life affirming. Described by readers as touching and poignant. It speaks to the genuine grief and pain felt by children.
Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies
Janis Silverman. This book provides a place for children to express their feelings in drawing. Each page has a few sentences to prompt your child to write or draw "out" their feelings of loss. 
Sad Isn't Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss (Elf-Help Books for Kids)
Michaelene Mundy & R.W. Alley. This book offers children of all ages a comforting, realistic look at loss --- loaded with positive, life-affirming help for coping. It’s a book that promotes honest and healthy grief and growth. 
Samantha Janes Missing Smile: A Story About Coping With the Loss of a Parent
Julie Kaplow, Donna Pincus and Beth Spiegel. This is a story abut coping with the loss of a parent. It gently guides young readers and their families through the feelings, thoughts, and wishes that young children aged 4 to 8 experience when a parent dies and provides them with helpful tools for overcoming their natural and inevitable grief associated with such great loss 
When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death (Dino Life Guides for Families)
Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown. Quiet, respectful, and unthreatening. Unlike many books on death for children, this one does not tell a story. Instead, it addresses children’s fears and curiosity head-on 
Tear Soup
Pat Schweibert, Chuck DeKlyen, Taylor Bills. Written in a children's book format - with simply worded concepts, wonderfully colored pictures, and a creative idea - this actually feels written for adults as much as for school-age children. In this modern fable, accompanied with full color illustrations, a woman who has suffered a terrible (unnamed) loss cooks up a special batch of "tear soup," blending the unique ingredients of her life into the grief process. Along the way she dispenses a recipe of sound advice for those who are in mourning or know someone who has suffered a loss.
