Grandma's Box of Memories
Grandma's Box of Memories

Author: Jean Demetris

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2014-06-21

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1849055173

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When Grandma starts to become forgetful, Alice and her family create a box of memories to remind her of all the good times they have shared together. Alice puts some pretty packets of seeds in the box, to remind Grandma of their happy times planting seeds and watching them grow into beautiful flowers. Her brother Harry puts some toy animals in the box, to remind Grandma of their fun trips to the zoo when the chimpanzees made them laugh. Grandpa puts a photo from their wedding day in the box, when Grandma looked so beautiful and happy. What a lot of wonderful memories in Grandma's box! What would you put in? This beautifully-illustrated story helps to explain dementia to children aged 4 to 7 years in a gentle and engaging way, and prompts discussions about what children can do to help a grandparent living with dementia. It is an ideal starting point for family discussions and a book that dementia care professionals will want to recommend to the families they work with.

The Memory Box
The Memory Box

Author: Mary Bahr

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 080755054X

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When Gramps realizes he has Alzheimer's disease, he starts a memory box with his grandson, Zach, to keep memories of all the times they have shared.

The Memory Box
The Memory Box

Author: Joanna Rowland

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1506426727

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"I'm scared I'll forget you]]' From the perspective of a young child, Joanna Rowland artfully describes what it is like to remember and grieve a loved one who has died. The child in the story creates a memory box to keep mementos and written memories of the loved one, to help in the grieving process. Heartfelt and comforting, The Memory Box will help children and adults talk about this very difficult topic together. The unique point of view allows the reader to imagine the loss of any they have loved - a friend, family member, or even a pet. A parent guide in the back includes information on helping children manage the complex and difficult emotions they feel when they lose someone they love, as well as suggestions on how to create their own memory box.

The Matchbox Diary
The Matchbox Diary

Author: Paul Fleischman

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0763646016

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Follows a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.

The Amazing Zoe
The Amazing Zoe

Author: Valene Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-17

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781777189570

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Zoe's grandma has forgotten to bake her favourite cookies, and sometimes she even forgets her name! Zoe devises a clever and creative way to help her grandma remember all her most treasured memories.

Missing Lucile
Missing Lucile

Author: Suzanne Berne

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1616200316

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Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father’s terrible melancholy: he’d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every family has a missing person, someone who died young or disappeared, leaving a legacy of loss. Aided by vintage photographs and a box of old keepsakes, Berne sets out to fill in her grandmother’s silhouette and along the way uncovers her own foothold in American history. Lucile Berne, née Kroger, was a daughter of Bernard Henry Kroger, the archetypal American self-made man, who at twenty-three established what is today’s $76 billion grocery enterprise. From her turn-of-the-century Cincinnati childhood to her college years at Wellesley, her tenure as treasurer of her father’s huge company, her stint as a relief worker in devastated France, her marriage to a professional singer, and the elusive, unhappy wealthy young matron she became, Lucile both illustrates and contradicts her times. In the process of creating this portrait, Berne discovers the function of family history: “to explain what is essentially inexplicable—how we came to be ourselves.”

What Cloud Is My Mommy In?
What Cloud Is My Mommy In?

Author: Kim Vesey

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1973664372

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Experiencing loss, whether sudden or expected, is extremely challenging at any age. For children, this time is not only scary, but also can be overwhelming and sometimes lonely. A little turtle loves doing fun things with his mommy that include flying a kite. But his world is turned upside down after his mother suddenly falls ill and goes to the hospital one day. When the turtle’s father tells him she has gone to heaven to live with God, the turtle must somehow learn to live without her. The turtle misses his mommy so much. While he wonders if she is living in a cloud, his grandmother and others help lead him through all of his feelings as he moves through the first year following her death and learns that it is okay to cry, laugh and be happy, and forever love his mommy with all his heart. In this beautifully illustrated and touching tale, a young turtle learns how to deal with loss and grief after his mother suddenly dies and leaves him believing she is watching over him from her heavenly cloud. This book provides numerous recommendations for adults supporting the grieving child. These include suggestions for honoring memories, creating tangible remembrances, and working through shared grief in a gentle and supportive way.

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Author: Mem Fox

Publisher: Omnibus Books

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781743810583

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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next door to a nursing home. When he finds out that his special friend, Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, is losing her memory he sets out to find what a memory is.

The Memory Book
The Memory Book

Author: Joanna Rowland

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781506457819

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"I will always remember you . . .Joanna Rowland's best-selling The Memory Box: A Book about Grief has helped thousands of children and families work through the complex emotions that arise after the loss of a loved one. Now, with The Memory Book, Rowland has created a beautiful grief journal to help readers put her methods into practice. The Memory Book helps grieving families process their emotions together by remembering their lost loved one and creating their own memory album full of photos and keepsakes of the person they lost. With gentle prompts and ideas for journaling, drawing, and talking through grief, this journal will bring comfort in the midst of loss and be a keepsake for families for years to come"--