as a family we lost 2 very close family members within 6 months of each other, my 13 year old son had a particularly difficult time accepting and trying to deal with it. he has special needs but a good understanding. someone introduced this book and started to do some of the activities with my son, which encouraged him to open up about his feelings. he then asked different members of the family to do diffrent sectons of the book with him.it was quite upsetting at times but really helped, not just my son but all of us, it encouraged us to talk about the loss etc as a family. also now the book has been completed it now makes a really good memory book about our lost love ones.