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When Missing Feels Big is a gentle children’s book about grief, love, and finding comfort after someone important is gone.
Through the tender stories of Bella Bunny, Benji Bear Cub, Hazel Hedgehog, Rory Raccoon, and Ruby Robin, children are invited to notice the many ways missing can feel: heavy, quiet, prickly, busy, or soft. Each animal friend experiences grief differently, and each finds support through connection, simple rituals, memory, and the steady presence of caring grown-ups.
Written by Kelly-Ann Scott MSc., PGDip., owner and counsellor at Juniper Tree Counselling Services, this compassionate story offers children reassuring language for big feelings while helping caregivers, educators, and helping professionals open gentle conversations about loss.
Perfect for families, counselling offices, classrooms, libraries, and grief-support settings, When Missing Feels Big reminds little hearts that grief can be held with love—and that even when someone is gone, the love does not disappear.
Ideal for:
Children navigating grief, bereavement, or separation
Parents and caregivers looking for gentle grief-support language
Counsellors, therapists, educators, and social workers
Read-aloud conversations about emotions, memory, and comfort
Therapeutic bookshelves and classroom calm corners
When Missing Feels Big is a gentle children’s book about grief, love, and finding comfort after someone important is gone.
Through the tender stories of Bella Bunny, Benji Bear Cub, Hazel Hedgehog, Rory Raccoon, and Ruby Robin, children are invited to notice the many ways missing can feel: heavy, quiet, prickly, busy, or soft. Each animal friend experiences grief differently, and each finds support through connection, simple rituals, memory, and the steady presence of caring grown-ups.
Written by Kelly-Ann Scott MSc., PGDip., owner and counsellor at Juniper Tree Counselling Services, this compassionate story offers children reassuring language for big feelings while helping caregivers, educators, and helping professionals open gentle conversations about loss.
Perfect for families, counselling offices, classrooms, libraries, and grief-support settings, When Missing Feels Big reminds little hearts that grief can be held with love—and that even when someone is gone, the love does not disappear.
Ideal for:
Children navigating grief, bereavement, or separation
Parents and caregivers looking for gentle grief-support language
Counsellors, therapists, educators, and social workers
Read-aloud conversations about emotions, memory, and comfort
Therapeutic bookshelves and classroom calm corners