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

by Kathryn A. Markell

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.

208 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2007

Reviews

[Sami Davidson ✨ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know it's probably weird to give something that's basically a textbook five stars, but I've been looking for this kind of academia in regard to Harry Potter for YEARS. It really is such a teaching tool about death, loss, overcoming, and surrounding yourself with good people. This book provided interesting discussions, activities, and concrete examples of how you could integrate Harry's story (as well as Neville's and Luna's) into therapeutic practices.

Plus I sort of had to read it to gather information for whatever my thesis is going to be in the Spring--I'm still thinking it's going to be focused on the use of children's literature in grief counseling with children and adolescents. Yay!