How do we tell the children by Dan Schaeffer

How do we tell the children?: a step-by-step guide for helping children two to teen cope when someone dies by Dan Schaeffer and Christine Lyons.  Updated edition. Newmarket Press, 1993.

This book provides practical advice for talking to children and teenagers about death. The book includes a Crisis section for quick reference. This section is designed for those people who cannot cope with reading the bulk of the book. Sections include:  What children think about death; Explaining death to children; Grief and healing; The funeral. The addendum to the updated edition includes: How to talk to children about someone who is dying; How to talk to children with mental retardation; AIDS; Death of a pet.  
NB: there is now a 2010 edition, which I will try and hunt out.