A 'little' book on bereavement but with some very 'big' messages about how to help a bereaved child. Aimed primarily at teachers, this is a book that both challenges and inspires. The personal experience of the author's wife's death and the impact this had on his own children come across clearly; Ian Gilbert writes with passion that teachers need to know what to do and say at such a difficult time. He is both direct and honest about what his children found useful and what they did not find useful. The challenge is made explicit for the reader neither to do the wrong thing nor to take the easy option and to do nothing.
The clarity and directness of style are echoed in the book's structure. The fifteen chapter summaries listed on the Contents page are repeated as a mini introduction to each chapter as the reader comes to them, thereby emphasising the importance of their message. Each chapter then goes into further detail and so by the time you have finished reading the book, you can remember the key points clearly.
This is a definitely a book which all teachers would find useful and which should be available in school for all to read.
Guest|27/06/2011 01:00
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