Badger's Parting Gifts: A picture book to help children deal with death

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The characters reflect upon their memories with Badger, the guidance and kindness that he gave them. Celebrating the 35th anniversary of this quintessential and multi award-winning picture book about losing a loved one. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Badger dies when he is very old, which wasn't relevant to my daughters situation but this was fairly easy to explain and led to more discussion around loss and death. Badger knows within himself that it is time to die and lets his friends know that he will "go down the Long Tunnel". When he finally passes away, they are grief-stricken, but one by one they remember the special things he taught them during his life.These ended up being the very last words I whispered in my mother's ear before leaving her for the night. And I thought you might like to know that it helped my mother and other French therapists support a lot of kids to befriend their experience of loss. Heartbroken, his friends started to remember all of the things that Badger had taught each of them leaving each with a parting gift.

The story then continues to explore the ideas behind how Badger’s friends come to terms with the loss of a dear friend. The following day Badger's friends realise that he is not there and Fox discovers his note to them that says, 'Gone down the Long Tunnel.Everyone is very sad and Mole especially misses his friend as he feels alone and desperately unhappy. The lead up to the Long Tunnel is marvellously told as Badger watches two young friends, Mole and Frog, frollicking about and he remembers when he was able to do just that. Badgers Parting gifts, is about a lovely old badger who's about to die, he has lots of friends around him and begins to think about all they ways in which he can thank them just for being there for him.