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Information library for age 5 to 8

Here are some books about dementia and kids.

  • Front cover of the Brains, Change and Dementia book showing a cartoon brain showing a book to children
    My book about brains, change and dementia - Lynda Moore and George Haddon

    What is a brain? What does dementia do to the brain? What changes might you notice if your parent, grandparent, family member or friend has dementia? What can help you if it gets tough for you sometimes?

  • Front cover of the book under the rose bush with cartoons of a woman and child holding a rose
    Under the rose bush - Jane Fry & Sandi Harrold

    Zoe and her granny are great friends. They share games, stories and love spending time in Granny’s wonderful rose garden. One day, Granny’s keys refused to be found, and this starts to happen over and over again. Granny would get very upset. Soon Granny couldn’t live by herself anymore.

  • Front cover of the book Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick showing children looking up at a red-headed child hanging upside down
    Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick - Roz Rosenbluth

    When the coolest kid in the class drops by David's house after school, David is worried about how popular, zany Ruben Plotnick will react upon meeting unpredictable Grandma Rosie. Will he make fun of her to his classmates? Will he imitate her whispery voice? What will he do if Grandma Rosie suddenly wants to dance? To his surprise, and relief, David learns that although Ruben may be a joker, he and Grandma Rosie get along really well.

  • Illustration of two rodents  sitting on some flowers with one holding a kite
    Do You Remember? - Kelly O’Gara & Anna McNeil

    A little mouse helps his grandmother to remember happy times by painting pictures of the stories they shared and covering the hilltops with them.

  • Front cover of Sachiko Means Happiness showing a Japanese grandmother and granddaughter
    Sachiko Means Happiness - K. Sakai

    Although at first five-year-old Sachiko is upset when her grandmother no longer recognises her, she grows to understand that they can still be happy together.

  • Front cover of the Jack and Lucas book showing  a grandfather and a grandson
    Lucas and Jack - Ellie Royce & Andrew McLean.

    Every week Lucas' mum visits Great Grandpop at the nursing home. And every week Lucas waits for her outside. Waiting is boring! Until Lucas meets Jack. Jack is tricky and Jack is fun, and he is a great storyteller.

  • Cover of My Gran's Different showing a watercolour style painting of a grandmother and her grandson
    My Gran’s Different - Sue Lawson & Caroline Magerl

    Sophie's Nanna bakes sponge cakes as high as my school bag ...Jonty's Granny catches the train to the footy every week ...Raffie's Nonna drives a florist van. But my Gran's different ...Each grandmother is different, but all are special. Some love footy, some love cakes, others work all week. But what if your Gran was more different than the others? Really different?

  • Cover of The Smell of Chocolate with a painting of a man wearing a sailors hat and looking up
    The smell of chocolate and Pog’s Alzheimer fact file - B. McGuire

    Welcome to Pog’s world! A world of midnight cakes and moonlight songs. When Ben’s grandfather, Pog, decides that midnight is a good time to bake a cake to prepare for the arrival of the Queen … the story is just beginning.

  • Cover of Striped Shirts and Flowered Pants with an illustration of a grandmother and grandchild in a paddock with sunflowers
    Striped shirts and Flowered pants - Barbara Schnurbush

    Libby and Nana love to read stories and colour pictures together. They plant the garden in spring and feed the songbirds. But Libby notices that Nana is forgetting the words in books. She's mixing up the names of birds. She's wearing clothes that don't match. What's going on? When Libby's parents tell her about Alzheimer's disease, she begins to understand what is happening to Nana.

  • Cover of Cry, Heart, But never break showing a young girl talking to a man in a black coat at the dinner table
    Cry, Heart, But Never Break - Glenn Ringtved, illustrated by Charlotte Pardi

    An ingenious and heart-warming story which gently introduces death as a necessary part of life. Death himself is characterised as patient and kind; each of the children responds to his presence in their home in their own unique way. Concepts of teamwork and individuality, denial and acceptance, sorrow and joy, grief and hope are all here in this delightful book.

  • Cover of Take the Time: Mindfulness for kids showing an abstract illustration of a child's head
    Take the Time: Mindfulness for kids - Maud Roegiers

    For all ages. When everything is topsy turvy what do you notice when you take the time to slow down, think and listen?

    Check out this video too!

  • Cover of Beginnings and Ending with Lifetimes in Between showing a butterfly and a birds nest with two eggs
    Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes in between - Bryan Mellonie & Robert Ingpen

    Have you ever wondered why a butterfly lives for only a few weeks? Or why a tree lives for hundreds of year? You may have been sad when someone in your family, or a favourite pet became sick and died. There is a beginning and an ending to everything that is alive. In between is a lifetime. Dying is a much a part of living as being born.

My Grandmum, My Papu, My Grandpa and Me - Ezekiel

Places to get information

There is lots of stuff on this website. When you’re finished here, you can check out another website for kids

Kids Helpline – tips and stories about things that matter to you.

Downloads

Click on the links below to check out our dementia downloadables, full of fun stuff for you to try:

Frank and Tess Activity book

Old School Hip Hop Comic Book

Neuron colouring-in page

Brain Maze

Brain colouring-in page

 

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Last updated
28 November 2023