Family Library
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.
Gives information to parents and guardians on how to best work together with your child's health care team to keep your child safe during their stay at BC Children's.
Gives information to parents and guardians on how to best work together with your child's health care team to keep your child safe during their stay at Children's & Women's Mental Health.
Gives information to parents and guardians on how to best work together with your child's health care team to keep your child safe during their stay in Child and Youth Mental Health at BC Children's Hospital.
A pamphlet for women staying at BC Women's, with 8 points about how best to take an active role in your care.
A pamphlet for women staying in the Antepartum Unit at BC Women's, with 8 points about how best to take an active role in your care.
This friendly picture book helps young children make sense of mixed-up emotions.; Happy, and also sad. Excited, but nervous too. Feeling friendly, with a little shyness mixed in. Mixed feelings are natural, but they can be confusing. There are different kinds of happy - the quiet kind and the noisy…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
This pamphlets contains nursing discharge instructions for your child after surgery. It also explains how to care for your child after surgery, and when to get help.
A list of questions to help youth manage their health and get ready for adult care.
A guide for parents and families to support their youth (12-24 years old) in the planning and preparation for adulthood and adult health care.
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
A realistic, photograph-based storybook to prepare children for an immunization. Monkey gets a needle from a nurse. Developed in partnership with the UK's National Health Service.; Ages 2-7
| copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available | ||
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A booklet that explains FAS in order to understand the problem behaviours caused by this condition. It provides strategies that help prevent or decrease the secondary characteristics of FAS such as tantrums, anger, anxiety, withdrawal, etc. Topics include basics, infant care, routines/daily structu…
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 19, 2024 |
"This essential guide, with new content based on cutting-edge research and current standards for treatment, is comprehensive, accessible and supportive, and truly aims to help parents, caregivers and children understand diabetes and live happy, healthy lives." [excerpted from cover]
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
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 |
A realistic, photograph-based storybook to prepare children for an immunization. Monkey goes to the ED after as asthma attack. He sees a triage nurse, a nurse, and a doctor. He stays overnight, meets a play specialist, and gets an asthma action plan from his asthma nurse. Developed in partnership …
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | ||
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Ovis is a sheep that is misunderstood by his family and his peers. He has sensory processing issues, therefore he doesn't eat. But when Ovis gets some new ideas about how to cope from an occupational therapist, he gets back on track.; For ages 3-10
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The Medikidetz are superheroes who live on Mediland, a planet shaped like a human body. they are experts in health and illness, and their mission is to teach you all about your body and how illness affects it.
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A loving sister finds a positive way to look at her sisters diagnosis of Autism while providing unconditional love and support to her.
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Why is this book important? We know that transgender kids and their families need specialized information. Alarmingly, the suicide attempt rate among trans youth is close to half! This book is intended to give gender non-conforming kids some of the information they need to grow to be happy, product…
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Growing up with a sibling who has a disability can be hard. But it can also be... awesome! Based on the author's real-life experiences, this unique and touching children's book explores how siblings of kids with disabilities are special, too. Created with the support of licensed clinical social wor…
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