Books can be a comforting companion during times of grief and loss. Our carefully selected collection offers support, understanding, and guidance for families navigating pregnancy and infant loss. Whether for parents, siblings, or loved ones, these resources provide words of solace, connection, and healing when you need them most.
Keeping You Close: Parenting Babies Who Could Not Stay
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This heartfelt book is written for parents navigating the devastating experience of baby loss. It can be read in sacred spaces to your baby who could not stay, shared with living children to help them connect with their angel siblings, or read to yourself as a gentle reminder that parenting a child who has died is complex, complicated, and still very much possible.
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Author: Amanda McKay, a loss mom of two boys, writer, and researcher.
Illustrator: Geanna Dunbar, a local Cree-Metis artist, writer, body piercer, tattoo artist, and community activist.
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Available now through our online store, this book is a tender companion for families navigating grief and remembrance.
Dear Star Baby
Author: Malcolm Newsome
Illustrator Kamala Nair
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Written as a tender letter to his unborn baby sibling, Dear Star Baby shares how a little boy processes the grief he and his family experience after a miscarriage. He tells the baby all about the preparations they had made to welcome them and the moments he had been looking forward to sharing. Through his words, he navigates wonder, sadness, and love, imagining his sibling singing and twinkling in the night sky.
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Poignant and sensitively told, this story helps families who have experienced miscarriage or stillbirth grieve and move forward together.
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Accolades: Winner of the 2023 Northern Lights Book Awards, Family category.
While You’re Our Rainbow
Author: Faith Falace
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A rainbow baby is a child born after loss, a new light shining through clouds of sorrow. This gentle, rhyming keepsake story honors both the heartbreak of loss and the joy of new life, showing that love can hold grief and hope at the same time.
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Through soothing words and soft, boho-inspired illustrations, While You’re Our Rainbow gives parents the language to celebrate their rainbow baby while remembering the little one they lost. A story of healing, hope, and unconditional love, it reminds families that joy after loss is not “instead,” but “as well.”