Taking Diabetes to School (Special Kids in Schools Series)
Taking Diabetes to School (Special Kids in Schools Series) book cover

Taking Diabetes to School (Special Kids in Schools Series)

Paperback – November 10, 2004

Price
$12.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
32
Publisher
JayJo Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1891383281
Dimensions
8 x 0.15 x 8 inches
Weight
3.2 ounces

Description

Kim Gosselin was born and raised in Michigan where she attended Central Michigan University. She began her professional writing career shortly after her two young sons were both diagnosed with chronic illnesses. Kim is extremely committed to bringing the young reader quality children's health education while raising important funds for medical research. Kim now resides, writes, and gives consultations. Kim is the recipient of the 1998 National American Lung Association Presidential Award. She is an avid supporter of the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society, the Epilepsy Foundation of American, and a member of the American Diabetes Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Small Publishers Association of North America, the Publishers Marketing Association, and the Author's Guild.

Features & Highlights

  • This color illustrated book for elementary age children contains an instructive story of a grade-schooler with diabetes who tells his classmates about the disease and how he manages it. The story offers sensitive insight into the day-to-day school life of a child with a chronic illness. Includes Ten Tips for Teachers and; Kids Quiz--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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A must for any diabetic grade-schooler!!!

This book is perfect in every way! My son has been type 1 one for two years now, and off to K5 in less than a month - how scary! This is the perfect book to be read to his classmates so they can learn a bit about diabetes. The language describing his condition is clear and simple, as is telling a bit how he takes care of himself. It's very clear and reassuring to his new friends that he's still like everyone else, even though he does some different things. The book covers insulin pumps, too, which is great.

We will be taking this book to school at the beginning of this school year - as well as many to come!!!
19 people found this helpful
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Helpful for newly diagnosed child to understand

Our endocrinologist let us borrow this book to read in the hospital. While the hospital staff offered a very thorough technical education to my husband and I, as an elementary teacher, I wanted to make sure my six-year-old had a better understanding (on her level) of what was happening to her. After we read it in the hospital, I ordered it on Amazon, so it was waiting when we got home from the hospital. We really appreciated using this book first as a tool for our daughter's own understanding and then as a resource for her teacher to read to her classmates to read in her first grade class after she returned to school.
17 people found this helpful
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great read

This was my personal favourite standout book from the 5 or so diabetes related books I have ordered. It is a simply written picture book suitable for all ages of primary school children that demystefies diabetes in a way that is cool and easy to understand. It could be read quite easily by the teacher to the class or by the children. The main character does not wear an insulin pump but he has a friend in the book who does so both insulin pump wearing and injection therapy are well covered in this book. I think what I liked best about this book is the ten top tips for teachers at the back of the book- this is gold and would make a great gift for any teacher for their classroom library.
11 people found this helpful
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Don’t buy

This book is awful. Pages falling out on arrival, but the “story” itself is poorly written. It is written like a bad fact sheet on diabetes. Too wordy, but not substantial information. It also uses words like “sugar” in ways that may be confusing to younger elementary kids- “there is too much sugar in my blood.” It sounds like the kid eats too much sugar, but then states that the child didn’t get diabetes from eating too much sugar...
10 people found this helpful
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Didactic, but helpful

The story is stilted, not great writing here - for example there we know nothing about the character beyond their disease. However it covers a lot of ground. What it's most useful, is the section for teachers. I bought it for a pre-school friends' mom, as she was having difficulty in training the upcoming kindergarten teacher/staff about her daughters' needs and it seemed as if it would be good for that. It's straight ahead, nice & clear for a lay person. Jury is out about using the story itself with her classmates (school hasn't started yet), but I did observe the mom reading it to her daughter and I think there is value in seeing yourself and your situation represented.
6 people found this helpful
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Highly recommended!

I purchased this book to share with the first and second grade classroom who will be getting a new student who is diabetic. It was great! Explained what diabetes is, that it is not contagious (kids won't catch it) and what to expect. It talked about the highs and the lows, about not sharing food because he has a special food plan to help control the diabetes, about the testing meter, the shots, and the pump. I loved that it shared suggestions about what behaviors they might see in their new classmate that might indicate that he is having a problem and what to do it they see them. It even had a little quiz at the end.

I highly recommend the book.
6 people found this helpful
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Book review

This book is great! We bought it for our newly-diagnosed diabetic son to take to school to share with classmates. This book answers many common questions kids have about diabetes in a fun and informative story!
6 people found this helpful
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Good book for elementary aged children with type 1 diabetes

I haven't had a chance to use it but just wanted it for my library. As a type 1 diabetic, I wish there had been more things around like this when I was younger.
6 people found this helpful
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The book literally fell apart turning the pages!

I am to use this book for a classroom information and learning tool...BUT as I was pre-reading the story before I taught the book started losing pages!!! What?!! It's a shame because I like this series, I like the story...but I have to return the book due to the poor quality of the binding.
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Excellent!

Type 1 diabetes is a tough disease to control, even for adults. Having type 1 as a child is exponentially harder for the kid and the parent as well. It's made even harder because most people have a really poor understanding of diabetes, and this book is great at explaining it for a child entering school and their peers. Excellent job! A suggested book that helps explain diabetes briefly and clearly to an adult audience is [[ASIN:0981676758 The Diabetes Book: What Everyone Should Know]]
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