My Book For Kids With Cansur I E Cancer

A young boy describes his successful two-year battle with cancer and offers advice to other cancer patients.

A young boy describes his successful two-year battle with cancer and offers advice to other cancer patients.

When a father or mother has been diagnosed with cancer, the entire family can be traumatized. "My Book About Cancer is a workbook that gives children an effective emotional outlet as they cope with their parent's disease. By creating and discussing their own book of experiences with parents, grandparents, and other adult loved ones, children can share their emotions and concerns as the family progresses through the diagonsis and treatment of cancer. This interactive workbook is both a coloring book and a sketchpad. Children can color various animal characters that depict scenes, images, and emotions likely to be encountered during a parent's illness. Each facing pages allows children enough blank space to draw pictures of thier own experience. "My Book About Cancer is available in two versions, one for children with a mother with cancer and one for those with a father with the disease.

It is very difficult for a family to explain to a child what cancer is. That disease that a loved one has. This book explains to children, in a joyful and true way, what cancer is. Carolina Schmidt, the author, is Oncology Pharmacist with extensive experience with Pediatric Oncohematology and Chemotherapy in Children and in Adults. She is a Oncological Hospital Pharmacy Specialist; Planning and Business Management Specialist. She has extensive experience in hospitals and clinic, with Pharmacy, Drug Interactions, Pediatrics, Oncology, Hematology, Neonatology, Intensive Health Care and Infectology; and academic experience in the fields: Pharmacy, Pediatrics, Oncology and Hematology, teaching for specialists as: pharmacists, physicians and nurses. Bruno Calmon, the illustrator, is an artist and architect, with numerous works and various exhibitions, debuting as an illustrator.Also available in Spanish and Portuguese, at Amazon.It is an updated version.* This book explains cancer (in general, not specifying one), treatment, chemotherapy, hair loss and hospitalization. This book is very didactic in a easy-to-read, friendly, happy and true way. It has no negativity, and it certainly will bring knowledge to all children and also to adults.