Hope Beyond The Headlines: supporting a child bereaved through murder or manslaughter                                                  

By Di Stubbs, Danny Nugus & Kate Gardner

Winston’s Wish 2008, ISBN: 978-0-9559539-1-0  

This book offers practical advice for families in the immediate days, weeks and months following a murder. It is written for both parents and professionals, giving them the confidence to involve children and young people in understanding and managing the particular difficulties and complexities that so often surround a death by murder or manslaughter. The booklet includes child-friendly activities to do with children or as a family to help them to make sense of what happened and to begin to express their grief.

 

Teachers Dead                                                         

By Benjamin Zephaniah

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2007, ISBN: 978-0747586098

A teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the school. He was a good man. People liked him. So how could this happen? Why? It just doesn't make sense to Jackson, and he is determined to investigate the case until he understands. Benjamin Zephaniah has, once again, chosen a topical and hard-hitting subject - and he deals with it in his own uniquely empathetic and edgy way.

 

The Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children and Families 2002 - After a murder: A workbook for grieving kids                 

ISBN: 978-1890534073

www.dougy.org