Dealth of pet or animal
Easy Books
The Accident
Carol Carrick (E) New York : Houghton Mifflin, c1976. 32 p. After his dog is hit a truck and killed, Christopher must deal with his own feelings of depression and guilt.
Better With Two
Barbara M. Joosse (E) ; illustrations Catherine Stock. New York : Harper & Row, c1988. 30 p. Laura tries to make Mrs. Brady feel better when her dog Max dies
The Bug Cemetery Frances Hill (E) llustrated Vera Rosenberry. New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2001. Neighborhood children imaginatively stage funerals for dead bugs, but they experience real sadness following the death of a pet
A Fish In His Pocket
Denys Cazet. (E) New York : Orchard Books, c1987. 32 p. Stopping to admire the fish in a pond, bear cub Russell accidentally loses a textbook. Upon retrieving it, he discovers a small dead fish inside. He puts the fish in his pocket and worries all day about what to do with it. A respectful and amusing book that celebrates the renewal of life.
Goodbye, Mousie
Robie H. Harris ; illustrated Jan Ormerod (JF) New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001. A boy grieves for his dead pet Mousie, helps to bury him, and begins to come to terms with his loss.
Gray Fox
Jonathan London (E) ; illustrated Robert Sauber. New York : Viking, 1993. Gray Fox is at one with nature and his place in it. When his life is brought to a sudden end, we see—through the eyes of a compassionate young boy—that nature offers recompense for loss.
I’ll Always Love You
Hans Wilhelm. (E) 1st ed.New York : Crown, c1985. 31 p. A child’s sadness at the death of a beloved dog is tempered the remembrance of saying to it every night, “I’ll always love you.”
Jim’s Dog Muffins
story byy Miriam Cohen (E); pictures by Lillian Hoban. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1984. 32 p. When Jim’s dog is killed, the other first graders experience with him his natural reactions to death.
Murphy and Kate
Ellen Howard (E) illustrated Mark Graham.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1995. Kate and her dog Murphy are best friends, and when Murphy dies Kate does not think she can ever be happy again.
Mustard
Charlotte Graeber (E); illustrated by Donna Diamond. New York : Macmillan, c1982. 42 p. Eight-year-old Alex and his family try to come to terms with the old age and death of their beloved cat.
Saying Goodbye To Lulu
Corinne Demas (E) illustrated by Ard Hoyt. New York : Little, Brown, c2004. When her dog Lulu dies, a girl grieves but then continues with her life.
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Judith Viorst (E); illustrated Erik Blegvad. New York : Aladdin Books, 1986, c1971. 25 p. In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat.
Tough Boris
Mem Fox (E) ; illustrated Kathryn Brown. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1994. Although he is a very tough pirate, Boris von der Borch cries when his parrots dies.
Up in Heaven
Emma Chichester Clark. Daisy, Arthur’s dog, dies and wakes up in heaven. She finds a way to let Arthur know she is happy- and that is the first step toward making him happy too.
Juvenile Fiction
Bimmi Finds A Cat
Elisabeth J. Stewart (E) ; illustrated James Ransome. New York : Clarion Books, c1996. 33 p. An eight-year-old creole boy on galveston island grieves the death of his cat crabmeat, but when another lost cat leads him to a new friend he starts to heal.
Juvenile non-fiction
Sunny : The Death Of A Pet
Judith E. Greenberg And Helen H. Carey (JUV 155.9 GRE) ; Photographs Barbara Kirk. New York : F. Watts, 1986. 32 P. Bill is scared when his dog Sunny gets sick, but after her death a new puppy helps him stop grieving.