Research into child bereavement

I've expressed my concerns before about writing about child bereavement - all children are impressionable, and writing and illustrating for children is always a difficult business - but writing for those who are grief stricken and going through life altering experiences needs to be treated with extreme sensitivity and care. There are numerous bereavement charities, help groups and websites out there, offering words of advice, and these have been tremendously helpful in my research. For example the following radio show:

http://www.kidsthesedays.org/

Has some interesting information, explaining how children are often overwhelmed and confused by the grieving around them, which can cause adult care givers to protect them from the grief, sending them to stay with friends/relatives. But the process and the activities going on need to be explained openly, and talked honestly about. To comfort them they need to know that they can still think and talk about the missing person, and that they can still do the things they used to do with them - to keep their memory alive.

That is what I want my book to be about - remembering the person that is lost, whilst learning to enjoy life again now that they have gone. To give people, and especially children, a sense of hope, that people are never truly lost, as they live on in our memories of them.