Explaining Death to Children Author:Earl A. Grollman, Louise Bates Ames "If you know exactly what you'd say to a child of any age faced for the first time by the death of someone very close to him, and if you yourself have a clear and comfortable understanding of death and what it means, you don't need a book on the subject. — "For the rest of us — professional people as well as parents &mdash... more »; the present volume will prove to be of rather surprising help, interest, and pleasure.
"… If you are looking for a single voice, a single style, a single philosophy, you may be disappointed. If, however, you can appreciate that here for perhaps the very first time under a single cover you are privileged to find in condensed and highly readable form thoughts on death of nearly a dozen different professional people most especially interested in the subject (rabbi, minister, priest, sociologist, anthropologist, research psychologist, school psychologist, psychiatrist, biologist, librarian), you will be richly rewarded."
— from the Introduction by Louise Bates Ames, Gessell Institute of Child Development« less