ABSTRACT
This book provides a practical source of ideas when supporting children going through loss and difficult life transitions. In providing a wide range of therapeutic and creative interventions, practitioners can pick and choose depending on what works for them and their clients. One of the gifts of children’s storybooks is their dual presentation of words and pictures, enabling the non-verbal and verbal to live side by side. This enables right and left-brain activity to happen naturally as children make their own links through the medium of metaphor. A storybook’s phrase can be a starting point to find words for feelings. Being able to reflect verbally can be enormously helpful, as children try to process what is going on inside them, around them. Education in schools has its natural focus on literacy, in teaching children to read and write. Although life inevitably brings change and hardship to us all, some children have difficult childhoods that leave them with fewer inner resources.
