Stories to Light the Night

Stories to Light the Night: Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities

Susan Perrow (author) 

This book offers story medicine at times of grieving, loss and separation. There are 94 stories from different countries and cultures worldwide by writers from a diversity of professions and backgrounds. Each story includes a description of who the story was written for, the age group and the situation. 

Susan Perrow M.Ed is an Australian author who works with story medicine . She passionately believes that stories know the way. She writes, collects and documents stories that offer a therapeutic journey for the reader a positive, imaginative way of addressing challenging behaviours and traumatic situations, including environmental grief and loss. Susan has an extensive background in teaching, writing and therapeutic storytelling. She travels nationally and internationally giving keynotes and running seminars for teachers, parents and therapists. Her therapeutic story work has led to the publication of three resource books Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour, Therapeutic Storytelling: 101 Healing Stories for Children and An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales, all published by Hawthorn Press. The first two have now been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Serbian and Croatian.

Publisher: Hawthorn Press (2021)
Paperback
ISBN: 978 1912480272