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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
A realistic, photograph-based storybook to prepare children for a blood test. Monkey meets a phlebotomist and stays still during the test. His mum reads him a story. Developed in partnership with the UK's National Health Service.; Ages 2-7
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Follow Betty as she has her first blood test and learns that it is not as scary as she thought. She also learns about blood from Nurse Nina and gets to stay in the hospital and make lots of new friends.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains why people need insulin, and how blood glucose meters help people with diabetes track blood glucose levels.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Isaac understand his body and the procedure for photopheresis.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores why bed-wetting happens, and treatments.
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how autism affects individuals, and their siblings.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 26, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how infections work, and explains hand hygiene.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains different degrees of burn, scarring, and how grafting works.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how thalassemia affects the body, and how treatments work.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how pneumonia affects the body, which tests diagnose pneumonia, how it's treated, and how to prevent it..
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, how chemotherapy works, and what to expect during treatment.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how asthma affects the body, and how treatments work.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how scoliosis affects the body, and how treatments work.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Join Dara on her journey to learn about her brother's osteosarcoma, how it affects his body, possible treatment options, and how to show her support.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Maggie learns about what happens before, during, and after an operation, and the surgical team who will be taking care of her.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Savi understand encephalitis.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how cancer affects the body, and treatments for childhood cancer.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Monday, March 4, 2024 |
Join Vincent on his journey to learn more about how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder works in the brain and how ADHD is treated.
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, June 5, 2024 |