The Children Who Lived : Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents

Harry Potter’s encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help children and adolescents deal with their own loss issues. The Children Who Lived is a unique approach toward grief and loss in children. Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses classic tales and the Harry Potter books to help grieving children and adolescents. Included in the text and the companion CD are a number of activities, discussion questions, and games that could be used with grieving children and adolescents, based on the fictional characters in these books. "Like many of the best children's stories, the books in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series are filled with loss and grief. These real-life issues are experienced in a world filled with fantastic creatures and magic, but not even wizards and witches can easily explain them or take away the pain they cause. Literature, however, like magic, can open up new worlds for people, showing them myriad ways to survive losses and challenges, and even to flourish beyond them. Markell and Markell use examples from Harry Potter and other classic children's books to show that these stories can be used to help children and adolescents deal with their own grief and loss-issues. After thoroughly examining these instances, they provide dozens of original activities, games, and discussion questions that can be used to help struggling children and adolescents, all of which are easily adaptable for use with other stories and characters. Highly original and filled with an unparalleled creativity, The Children Who Lived Is sure to be an invaluable resource for educators, counselors, and parents for some time to come."--Jacket Harry Potter's encounters with grief, as well as the grief experiences of other fictional characters, can be used by educators, counselors, and parents to help children and adolescents deal with their own loss issues. The Children Who Lived is a unique approach toward grief and loss in children. Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses classic tales and the Harry Potter books to help grieving children and adolescents. Included in the text and the downloadable resources are a number of activities, discussion questions, and games that could be used with grieving children and adolescents, based on the fictional characters in these books.