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A book aimed at helping parents of visually impaired babies by providing activities and play ideas.
Copy 4 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
A comforting story which helps children deal with the their own death, death of friends, a family member, or even pets. A loving and tender tale that addresses our feelings of sadness, love, disbelief, and anger.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Hospital patient Filbert MacFee transforms himself into a series of animals to avoid some unpleasant medical procedures, making the nurses so frustrated that he is finally allowed to go home.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 17, 2024 |
This is a book offering support for young children when a brother or sister is in hospital. It explores the emotions that go through children's minds when a sibling is in hospital.
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | ||
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Edward is sick and Elizabeth is well, and nothing could be more unfair! Edward gets to stay in bed and everyone treats him like a prince. Elizabeth has to get out of bed, get dressed, go to school, come home and do chores, finish her homework and practice the piano. "I wish I was sick too!" Elizabe…
BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Illustrated book dealing with the many complicated feelings the well child experiences in a situation where a sibling is ill: guilt about having caused the illness, fear that the sibling will die, anger over being left out, anxiety about catching the sickness, and longing for life to return to the …
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | ||
Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
This is a comprehensive resource for parents, teachers, counselors, health-care professionals, clergy and others concerned about the children in their lives. Suggests ways of explaining death to children and teens from a number of perspectives eg. philosophical, cultural and religious.
Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
In this healing story, a little tree loses some of her branches in a storm. She experiences emotions of fear, self-blame, and worry so common to children facing serious medical problems. The little tree in the forest survives the storm and learns that although many branches and leaves were lost, sh…