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This book was written by 10 to 13-year-old boys for 10 to 13-year-old kids. This book deals with: illegality of sexual abuse, consequences, personal responsibility, empathy, denial, and normal sexuality.
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Offers help for parents dealing with children who: won't eat, overeat, eat only peanut butter, or who are always hungry after dinner.
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It offers children of all ages a comforting, realistic look at loss-loaded with positive, life-affirming helps for coping with loss as a child. It's a book that promotes honest and healthy grief-and growth. This book is illustrated in the "Elf-help" style of artist R.W. Alley
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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.
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Life and death are explained in a sensitive, caring way using examples from nature and lovely illustrations.
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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.
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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.
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A demonstration of various pain management techniques. Children and their parents learn various coping methods for frightening or painful treatment procedures.
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An uplifting story for parents and children of old Badger's friends remembering him as their confident advisor and friend, after he dies.
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This story follows Lee from her first seizure, to the doctor's office, and then home with new medication to control her seizures. It's a tale for young children with epilepsy.
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A book aimed at helping parents of visually impaired babies by providing activities and play ideas.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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This book is based on a decade of working with dying children and was written to help parents and families cope with the terminal illness or sudden death of a child. It speaks directly to the fears, doubts, anger, confusion, and anguish that parents and families are faced with.
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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…