I'm excited to see these and other helpful books available to help parents guide their youngsters through this difficult period. Dementia in a loved one is hard enough for an adult to comprehend. For a child with a more limited world view, it's nearly impossible.

My boys learned to adapt to their grandfather's strange behavior, and later, to both grandmothers' different types of dementia. The process of learning to understand dementia is riddled with grief. Reading a child a book about the subject isn't going to make him or her suddenly feel, "Oh, yeah, now I get it!"

However, I believe a young child having to cope with a grandparent's dementia could benefit from these books, and others, if the parents are looking for ways to help their children along the long, confusing journey that stretches before them.

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