Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Children

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1. What is bibliotherapy? An overview. Chapter 2. How real do we want our realism about death? Chapter 3. How do authors present death? Then and now. Chapter 4. How do writers and readers communicate? Chapter 5. Classification of books with topics of death. Chapter 6. Detailed study of the novel 'Squib'. Chapter 7. Discussion and implications. Appendix A: Analysis of passage from 'Squib'.Appendix B: Sources of book lists. Bibliography. References. Index.

Eileen Jones is persuaded that fiction can help children in both directive and non-directive situations, alongside other support. Her book will be of interest to teachers, counsellors and parents and will help them greatly in making judgements on books that come their way; for my own belief is that we should never offer a book to a child for therapeutic purposes without having read it ourselves.