Talk:Death in children's literature

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

 * In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland these mentions of death occur:
 * Alice jokes that if she falls and dies, she will be "quite a story back home".
 * The Queen of Hearts sentences several people to beheading (but the King of Hearts always repeals the sentence).
 * The mechanics of beheading are discussed when the queen tells the executioner to behead the Cheshire Cat.
 * In included poems which are separate stories:-
 * Humpty Dumpty has a fatal fall from a wall.
 * Some oysters are represented as walking and talking, then the Walrus and the Carpenter eat them.

List of books

 * Here is the list of books, in case someone deletes Category:Children's books about death:-

A


 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

B


 * Bambi, A Life in the Woods
 * The Big Wave
 * The Black Stallion
 * Bog Child
 * Bridge to Terabithia (novel)

C


 * The Cat Who Went to Heaven
 * Charlotte's Web

D


 * Death Be Not Proud (book)

F


 * Firebird (Slavic folklore)

G


 * The Giving Tree

H


 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 * Robin Hood
 * Humpty Dumpty

K


 * Kira-Kira

L


 * The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
 * The Little Match Girl
 * The Little Mermaid
 * A Little Princess
 * Little Women

M


 * Missing May
 * Le Morte d'Arthur
 * Mother Goose
 * My Brother Sam Is Dead

N


 * Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
 * Number the Stars

O


 * Old Yeller

P


 * The Pilgrim's Progress

R


 * Ramona Forever
 * River Boy

S


 * The Secret Garden
 * Sleeping Beauty
 * Sounder
 * A Summer to Die

T


 * A Taste of Blackberries
 * The Juniper Tree (fairy tale)
 * Tuck Everlasting

W


 * Where the Red Fern Grows

Y


 * The Yearling