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Book List (Free Publications)

For Parents

  • Helping Children When a Family Member has Cancer, (800) 813-HOPE (4673), Cancer Care
  • Helping Children Understand Cancer: How to Talk to Your Children About Your Cancer Diagnosis (Fact Sheet), (800) 813-HOPE, Cancer Care
  • Helping Teenagers When a Parent Has Cancer (Fact Sheet), (800) 813-HOPE, Cancer Care
  • A Guide to Helping Your Child Cope with Cancer in the Family, (310) 314-2555, The Wellness Community
  • What's Happening to Mom? Helping Children Cope with Breast Cancer, Susan G. Komen Foundation, (877) 745-7467.

For Children

For Teens

  • What About Me? A Booklet for Teenage Children of Cancer Patients, by Linda Leopold Strauss. 
    (513) 731-3346, Cancer Family Care, CINCINNATI, OH.
  • When Your Parent Has Cancer, (800) 422-6237, National Cancer Institute, (NIH Publication No. 05-5734)

GENERAL BOOK LIST

For Parents

  • Can I Still Kiss You?, by Neil Russell: Answering Children's Questions About Cancer, 2001
  • Cancer In the Family, by Sue P. Heiney, PhD, RN; Joan F. Hermann, MSW, LSW; Katherine V. Fincannon, RN, MS: Helping Children Cope with a Parent's Illness, 2001
  • Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents and Families, by van Dermoot, Peter, 1986
  • How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness, by Kathleen McCue, MA and Ron Bonn, 1996
  • Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child:  When a Parent is Sick, by Rauch, Paula K., 2005
  • Serious Illness: Children Can Learn to Cope With Loss and  Change, by Marage Heegard, 1992.
  • What About My Kids?: A Guide for Parents Living with Breast Cancer, by Linda Corsini, 2002
  • When A Parent Has Cancer, by Dr. Wendy Schessel Harpham: A Guide to Caring for Your Children, 1997
  • When a Parent is Seriously Ill: Practical Tips for Helping Parents and Children, by Collins, Leigh & Nathan Courtney, 2003
  • When a Parent is Sick: Helping Parents Explain Serious Illness to Children, by Hamilton, Joan, 2000
  • We Can Cope: Helping Parents Help Children When a Parent Has Cancer. Brombert J. and McCabe, D.C., 2001

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For Children

  • Becky and the Worry Cup, by Harpham, Wendy S. and Kulikaoskas, Jonas, 1997 ( ages 9-12)
  • Can I Still Kiss You, Neil Russell, 2001 (ages 5-10)
  • Cancer: the Whispered Word, by Swenson, Judy H., 1986 (ages 8-14)
  • Ida B: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World, by Hannigan, Katherine, 2004 (ages 9-12)
  • In Mommy's Garden: A Book to Help Explain Cancer to Young Children, by Ammary, Neyal J., 2004 (ages 4-7)
  • Kids Speak Out About Breast Cancer, by Numeroff, Laura, 1999 (ages 3 -10)
  • Life Isn't Always a Day at the Beach, by Ganz High Five Publishing, 1996 (ages 5 - 12)
  • Mommy's in the Hospital Again, by Parkinson, Carolyn, 1996 (ages 4 - 7)
  • Mom's Don't Get Sick, by Pat Brack, 1990 (ages 3 to 13)
  • My Daddy's Cancer: An Interactive Book for Children. Cohen, Cindy K., 1999 (ages 4 - 7)
  • My Mommy Has Cancer, by Parkinson, Stearns Carolyn, 1991 (ages 4 - 7)
  • My Mummy is Sick: A Story about Breast Cancer, by Madill, Fani, 2001
  • Once Upon a Hopeful Night, by Risa S. Yaffe, 1998 (ages 3 to 10)
  • Our Family Has Cancer Too!, by Christine Clifford and Lindstrom, Jack, 1998 (ages 3 -16)
  • Our Mom Has Cancer, by Ackermann, Abigail & Adrienne, 2001 (ages 5 - 12)
  • Promises, by Winthrop, Elizabeth, and Betsy Lewin , 2000
  • Sammy's Mommy Has Cancer, by Kohlenberg, Sherry and Crow, Lauri, l993 (ages 3 - 8)
  • Someone I Really Love Has Cancer, by Dana Cohn & L. E. Murray (ages 3 to 10)
  • The Hope Tree: Kids Talk About Breast Cancer, by Numeroff, Laura Harpham, Wendy and McPhail M., 2008 (ages 5-8)
  • The Paper Chain, by Blake, Blanchard & Parkinson (800) 643-2665, 1997 (ages 4 to 10)
  • The Year My Mother was Bald, by Speltz, Ann, 2003 (ages 8-13)
  • Tickles Tabitha's Cancer - Tankerous Mommy, by Frahm, Amelia, 2001 (ages 4 - 12)
  • Time for Me: An Activity Book for Kids When Someone in the Family Has Cancer, by Slakov, June, 2004
  • Vanishing Cookies: Doing OK When a Parent Has Cancer, by Goodman, Michelle B., 2990 (ages 10-16)
  • We Can Cope: Helping Parents Help Children when a Parent Has Cancer, by Brombert, J and McCabe, D.C.,2000
  • What is Cancer Anyway? Explaining Cancer to Children of All Ages, by Carney, Karen L. , Barklay, Eve, 1999 (ages 4-8)
  • When Eric's Mom Fought Cancer, by Vigna, Judith, 1993 (ages 4-8)
  • When I Feel Afraid, by Meiners, Cheri J., 2003
  • When Mama Wore a Hat, by Schick, Eleanor, 2007 (ages 4-7)
  • When Mommy Had a Mastectomy, by Greenfield Reuben, Nancy, 2004
  • When Mommy is Sick, by Sherkin-Langer, Ferne, 1995
  • Where's Mom's Hair?: A Family Journey through Cancer, by Watters, Debbie, et al 2005
    (ages 5-10)

For Teens

  • Both Sides New, Pennebaker, Ruth, 2000
  • Will I Get Breast Cancer?: Questions and Answers for Teenage Girls, by Carole Vogel (1995)
  • Mom's Cancer, Fies, Brian, 2006 (teenagers and older children)
  • What's Happening to Mom? Helping Children Cope with Breast Cancer, Susan G. Komen 

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