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Cariad Lloyd, Author
Tom Percival, Illustrator
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: February 26, 2026
Category: Death & bereavement
ISBN: 9781444970951
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: May 8, 2025
Category: Death & bereavement
ISBN: 9781444970944
The perfect book for opening up honest conversations with young children about grief and death, whether they have lost a loved one, or are simply curious and at the age of asking questions.
When one little girl’s grandma is nowhere to be seen, and everyone keeps saying how sorry they are that the family have lost her, she makes it her special task to find Grandma and cheer everyone up.
But Grandma’s not under the sofa or behind the flower patch, so where has she really gone?
Written with gentle humour and a lightness of touch by grief expert and comedian Cariad Lloyd, and illustrated by Tom Percival, creator of the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series.
An accessible approach and comforting message of remembrance and love makes this the ideal book to support children as they navigate and cope with grief.
Cariad Lloyd is a writer, actor, comedian, podcaster and improviser. She is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast, the Griefcast, where she talks to people about their experiences of grief and death. It won Podcast of the Year at the British podcast awards in 2018 and in 2023, Cariad wrote the critically acclaimed, Times bestseller You Are Not Alone based on her grief lessons from the show. Cariad has appeared in Peep Show, Alan Partridge, Have I Got News for You, QI and a number of other comedy shows on TV and radio. She is one of the creators of hit improv show Austentatious and co-hosts Sara and Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club podcast with Sara Pascoe.
Despite her very Welsh name, Cariad was born and raised in North London, where she still lives because the tube’s Northern line is too convenient to leave. She can dance very well and all hats suit her.
cariadlloyd.com | @ladycariad | @thegriefcast
Tom Percival is a writer, artist, video producer and musician based in Stroud. He’s the creator of several children’s books including middle grade series Dream Defenders, picture books The Invisible and The River and the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series – translated into 21 languages. Tom has become the go-to talent for empathetic and inclusive books that explore emotional health and well-being, which resulted in him working with BBC Children in Need in 2020 on short film titled Goodbye Rainclouds.