A story about losing a parent and coping with the feelings of grief, loss and anger.
Leo's class are all making flower pots to give to their mums at the Mother's Day breakfast. But Leo isn't making a pot. Leo's mum died in a car crash and won't be going to the breakfast. Leo works on his memory book instead, but he's still very angry. He turns his memory book into an imagination book, of all the things his mum would have loved to do. In the end, Leo's dad takes him for a special breakfast and they remember Leo's mum together.
Leo's Memory Book explores the issue of bereavement through a sensitive story that children can relate to. Providing a picture book approach to the PSHE topics of bullying, bereavement, divorce and adoption, A Helping Hand aims to help young children understand and cope with upsetting situations that they might face.
Other titles in the A Helping Hand series include:
Roman and Iris : A Story of Bullying
What about Neko? : A Story of Divorce
Chloe's List of Firsts : A Story of Adoption
This is Book 3 in the A Helping Hand Series. See all A Helping Hand books here.
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Nancy Loewen has published many books for kids. She's a two-time Minnesota Book Award finalist (Four to the Pole and The LAST Day of Kindergarten) and the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (Writer's Toolbox series). She holds an MFA from Hamline University in St. Paul. Nancy has two children and liv
More about Nancy LoewenJennifer Gray lives in London and Scotland with her husband, four children and friendly but enigmatic cat, Henry. She has written the Atticus Claw series, the Chicken Mission series and the Guinea Pigs Online series, co-written with Amanda Swift. The first book in the Atticus series, Atticus Claw Breaks the Law, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's
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