Start with high-confidence death & grief books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Kids Book About Death
Taryn Schuelke
A Kids Book About Cancer
Dr. Kelsie Storm, Sarah Porter
How High Is Heaven?
Linsey Davis
The Case for Heaven Young Reader's Edition
Lee Strobel
Goodbye: a First Conversation About Grief
Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli
Black Potatoes
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
Penny Colman
Twenty-one Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Jeff Gottesfeld
Fox
Isabel Thomas