Extras

Bill's Library

Resources for Grief

- - Coryell, Deborah Morris (2007) Good Grief, Healing Through the Shadow of Loss
  - Doka, Kenneth J. (2002) Disenfranchised Grief
  - Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, & Kessler, David (2005) On Grief and Grieving
  - Neimeyer, Robert A. (2001) Meaning Reconstruction & the Experience of Loss
  - Worden, J. William (2009) Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy (4th ed.)
  - Wolfelt, Alan, Understanding your Grief
  - Hone, Lucy (2017) Resilient Grieving
  - O’Connor, Mary-Frances (2023) The Grieving Brain
  - Westberg, Granger E. (1997) Good Grief
  - Winston, Lolly (2004) Good Grief
  - Kumar, Sameet K. (2005) Grieving Mindfully
  - Stang, Heather (2014) Mindfulness and Grief
  - Kushner, Harold S. ((2001) Living a Life that Matters
  - Seligman, Martin E. (2006) Learned Optimism
  - Mitchell, Kenneth R and Anderson, H. (1983) All Out Losses, All Our Grief

Rachel's Library

Picture Books

I love pictures books for the way pictures and text build on each other to engage readers. Quality picture books present ideas, emotions, and experiences without talking down to readers, no matter how old the readers are. I have a huge collection, so this list will expand. Check back. :-)

- Because of a Shoe (2026) by Julie Fogliano follows a mother and child through the experience of stubborn anger (e.g., "I don't want to!). The shift from illustrations in color to black and white and back to color does a marvelous job depicting how our vision narrows when anger takes over.
- The Big Orange Splot (1977) by Daniel Pinkwater explores what can happen if you choose to pause and think about what you want rather than doing what was and/or going with what people pressure you to do. Your house can be the house of your dreams rather than “all the same.”
- The Book of Mistakes (2017) by Corinna Luyken transforms “mistakes” into new ideas.
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2006) by Lynn Truss, illustrated by Bonnie Timmons illustrates how the meaning of the same words change when punctuation changes. (Key and Peele's Text Message Confusion (uncensored version) is a great video example of the same idea.)

- Henny (2014) by Elizabeth Rose Stanton is a chicken without wings. She has arms and hands. And what can a chicken do with arms and hands? Quite a lot. And she also figures out how to fly.

- Hildilid’s Night (1971) by Cheli Durán Ryan, illustrated by Arnold Lobel. Hildilid tries to control what cannot be controlled: the night. She tries in many different ways, including tying it up, putting it in a sack, and spitting at it. And she wears herself out.
- Lost and Found (2005) by Oliver Jeffers invites readers on a journey of transformation that starts with an incorrect assumption (Penguin is lost).
- They All Saw a Cat (2016) by Brendan Wenzel explores the concept of the lense through which you see the world. The cat is a cat always, but the mouse sees the cat very differently (the cat is a terrifying thing) than the dog than the fish than the boy.
- The Shrinking of Treehorn (1971) by Florence Parry Heide highlights the experience of a child trying to be seen in a world of adults creating their own explanations.

Memoirs

Memoirs offer opportunities to see the world from another person's perspective, ways they navigate and make meaning of their life, and how they tell their story.