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Title: Thoughtful Info for Kids at a Scary Time
Review: Sometimes books written by adults using the first person voice of a child are cloying and insipid and insulting to children. This is not one of those books.Ms. Speltz takes a scary thing -- a parent's battle with cancer -- and turns it into a learning experience. Calmly and seemingly effortlessly she anticipates the fears, anxieties, and emotions of a young child and skillfully illustrates the questions a child may have and distills sometimes cold and frighteneing medical jargon and presents it in a way that children can hear and understand. At 15, my son is a little old for this book, but I am very glad to have read it because it gave me a lexicon for communicating things about my own cancer to family and friends in a way they will understand.It would be unfair for me not to compliment the illustrator of this book, Kate Sternberg, who did a wonderful job and helped keep the book light.
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