Anybody know of a good children's book that discusses "angels", heaven or addresses sibling loss. My first son passed away at two weeks old and I want to find something that we can read to our younger children and have it relate to their older brother..

Here's one we have that we've read once to our "rainbow" daughter. We lost our firstborn, a girl in 2010, and then had her little sister in March, 2013. I've only been able to read it once so far, and even then, I cried through some of it.

Someone Came Before You - http://www.amazon.com/Someone-Came-Before-You-Schwiebert/dp/0972424156/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408381190&sr=1-1&keywords=someone+came+before+you

Thank you! I just ordered it in amazon.. Will be a hard read in sure, but it looks exactly like what I was looking for.

Michael Rosen's Sad Book is beautiful. His son died at age 18 and this children's book is all about what grief looks like. It has a lot of dark, hard topics in its pages. Some might find it too adult for kids but we read it to our two, now three year old.

A friend gave us Heaven is for Real For Kids. We never read the grown up one, but in this one their tale boy meets his older sister in Heaven, (who he didn't even know about until then). Our five year old daughter started reading this book when she was three or four. We pulled it out for her when she was going through a particularly hard patch grieving her younger sister. She finds it enormously comforting, and asks for it when she needs it.

She also likes "I have a sister in heaven" by Toni Tattis,

Love to you,
Jen (AdiaRose and Baby Leaf's mom)

The other elated ones she likes are "Jubilee" illustrated by Tim Ladwig and a book called "Angel in the Waters" and " The Mountains of Tibet" which is Buddhist and about reincarnation.

Love,
Again :)
Jen

We have "We were gonna have a baby but we had an angel instead" http://www.amazon.com/Were-Gonna-Have-Angel-Instead/dp/0972424113

I have to say I don't really know how I feel about it. I don't love it but some people do.

There really aren't a lot out there, or ones that I've been happy with, anyway. One that I have which directly relates to sibling death / heaven...

http://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Please-Dont-Cry-Heaven/dp/159052151X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408481266&sr=1-1&keywords=mommy+please+don%27t+cry

Two others that I like for my 6-yr old,... they talk more generally about death / heaven, but at kid level...

http://www.amazon.com/God-Gave-Heaven-Lisa-Bergren/dp/1400074460/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408481384&sr=1-1&keywords=god+gave+us+heaven

http://www.amazon.com/Someday-Heaven-Larry-Libby/dp/0310701058/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408481438&sr=1-1&keywords=someday+heaven

The invisible string is my very "favorite." I find it beautiful and palatable for children of young ages. It's not solely focused upon sibling or baby death. But it works for sure.