Talking about the End of Life, Death and Bereavement with Children's Literature

The French national centre of palliative and end-of-life care (Centre national des soins palliatifs et de la fin de vie) offers each year an updated selection of nearly 200 children's books for helping adults who accompany children who are seriously ill, facing an end-of-life situation, in mourning, or more simply curious about death. In 2022, 26 books out of the 46 published the previous year related to the themes of serious illness, palliative care, death, and bereavement were chosen by a multi-professional reading committee. The objective of this article is thus to present a brief description of some of these books for children and adolescents. These books can be recommended to the parents met.