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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.
"This engaging and interactive book guides children through the practice of naming their feelings and the physical sensations that accompany them.; From wiggly and squirmy to rested and still, Listening to My Body helps children develop a sensations vocabulary so that they can express what they are…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
Our hearts can feel so many feelings. Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and id…
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This thoughtful book explores happiness, sadness, anger, fear and worry in a friendly and approachable way. Adorable animal characters experience different emotions, while imaginative flaps answer important questions such as 'Why don't I feel happy all the time?' and 'How can I cheer up my friend?'…
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Through sweet, simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behaviour as children see how very easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation, and love on a daily basis.
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"This life-affirming, instructive and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is, or who might one day be, sick. And it can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplifting inspiration to family, friends, and loved ones struggling with the many terrifying or dishea…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, January 5, 2024 |
Fifteen years after the publication of the first edition of this book, girls with ADHD continue to be misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Research conducted in these intervening years has clearly validated the clinical observations contained in the first edition and established the need for accurate di…
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Read aloud and breathe along with this sweet story teaching children how to navigate powerful emotions like anger, fear, sadness, confusion, anxiety, and loneliness. Simple guided practices, like imagining you are a tree blowing in the wind, follow each story to teach children how to apply mindfuln…
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This rhyming book will help kids identify what it feels like to be sad and what they can do to respond to it. If It offers suggestions such as talking about what makes you feel sad, imagining happy things, or crying as a way to let the emotion out. The book lets kids know that it?s perfectly normal…
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Sometimes the LITTLEST kids can have the BIGGEST tempers!; A Feel Better Book for Little Tempers assures little kids that anger is normal ? everyone gets angry sometimes, even adults! The rhyming narration helps kids to identify anger and provides them with helpful tools to manage and move past it.…
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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 |
Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress--and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,000,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to conquer dep…
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A Feel Better Book for Little Worriers assures kids that having some worries is normal ? everyone has them, even adults!; The rhyming narration helps little kids to identify a worry and where it might come from, as well as provides them with helpful tools to reduce and cope with worries.; Includes …
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Join Jonathan on his journey to learn about all the people on his health care team who will support him before, during, and after his medical procedure.
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In this story, Jacob learns the value of gratitude (a key component of mindfulness).
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 10, 2024 | ||
| Copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
This guide discusses how baby blues and depression may affect women's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being and what to do if that occurs.; Part 1 - Basic Aboriginal Teachings; Part 2 - Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the first year of being a parent; Part 3 - Feelings during Pregnancy an…
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Highly sensitive people?or empaths?see life through the eyes of compassion and caring. They were born that way. As a result, they carry a tremendous amount of inner light. But they?re also the favored prey of "vampires" who feed off empaths? energy and disrupt their lives on every level?physical, e…
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The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? A reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening exercise in childhood and youth help the body. The Medikidz also explain how not exercising can harm the body.
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
"We talk to kids a lot about how to be friends to others, but not much about how to be friends to themselves. Yet self-acceptance and positive self-talk help them build emotional resilience, happiness and well-being.; When Esperanza finds a heart shaped rock, she sees it as a reminder to spread kin…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, November 9, 2023 |
This beautifully illustrated guide helps young people with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) to understand their diagnosis, develop self-awareness and implement their own personalized problem-solving strategies. Written in consultation with young people with PDA and their families, this book reco…
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Is hitting, biting and bullying normal behaviour in young children? When does such behaviour start? What can you do to make sure it doesn't continue? Or will it stop on its own? Why are some children more aggressive than others? When should you start to worry?; This interactive 2-disc DVD set uses …
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This book offers coping strategies for facing the combined elements of academic performance, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension.
| 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 |
Join Charlie on his journey to learn how leukemia is diagnosed, what cancer does to the body, and what to expect with leukemia treatment.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Wednesday, April 3, 2024 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how psoriasis affects the body, and treatment options.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains different degrees of burn, scarring, and how grafting works.
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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..
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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.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Savi understand encephalitis.
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In graphic novel format, the Medikidz, superheroes from the planet Mediland, help Isaac understand his body and the procedure for photopheresis.
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Join Tia and Gabriel on their journey to explore how obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects your behavior and emotions, and how to manage it.
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Join Duke on his journey to learn more about his appendix, appendicitis, and appendectomy procedure.
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Join Mark on his journey through the human body to learn about how concussions affect the brain and concussion recovery.
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Join Tara on her journey to learn more about managing seizure triggers, epilepsy symptoms, and treatment.
| 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 |
Every child could use help with social skills and making friends. This book provides twenty-one concrete strategies children can use to express themselves, build relationships, end arguments and fights, halt bullying, and beat unhappy feelings. It?s like a toolbox of kid-friendly social skills?just…
| copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | Available |
The Medikidz help Freddy overcome his fears about having a blood test.
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 |
Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explores how ulcerative colitis affects the body, and how medication helps.
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Comic book featuring Medikidz, superhero experts on health and illness. Explains how primary immunodeficiency 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 epilepsy and epilepsy medicines can affect children and youth, and how to cope.
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The Medikidz teach Cameron, June, and Marcus what happens in a clinical trial and how clinical trials help doctors and scientists find new treatments to help kids with different illnesses around the world.
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