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Book Club

The power of books

We have over 80 books available for families affected by childhood cancer to borrow.

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For anyone who wants to read about the childhood cancer experience 

Borrow for free, for as long as you like

Your local library might not have any books on childhood cancer… but we do! We’ve got more than 80 books about all kinds of aspects of the cancer experience including strong emotions, communication challenges, and treatment that you can borrow for free. Some books are for little kids, others are for teenagers. We’ve even got books for grown-ups. Give us a call and we can talk you through the different titles and help you choose.

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Diagnosis & treatment

Princess Lily defeats the Night Monsters

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Princess Lily defeats the Night Monsters

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Princess Lily and the Hair Fairy

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Princess Lily and the Hair Fairy

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Princess Lily Earns her Beads

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Princess Lily Earns her Beads

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Princess Lily meets Zoah the Warrior

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Princess Lily meets Zoah the Warrior

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Hey Warrior

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Hey Warrior

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Little Lou has Leukaemia

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Little Lou has Leukaemia

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When someone you love is sick by Meg Rees and Jessica Blair | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

When someone you love is sick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When someone you love is sick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Two mates book cover

Fiction books on cancer

Two Mates, Melanie Prewett

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Two Mates, Melanie Prewett

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When a Kid Like Me Fights Cancer

Diagnosis & treatment

When a Kid Like Me Fights Cancer, Catherine Stier

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When a Kid Like Me Fights Cancer, Catherine Stier

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Sadness is at your door by Eva Eland | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

When Sadness Is At Your Door

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Sadness Is At Your Door

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Feelings Book by Todd Parr | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

The Feelings Book

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Feelings Book

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

What Happens When My Sibling Has Cancer

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

What Happens When My Sibling Has Cancer

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

The Homesick Club

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Homesick Club

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Grief Rock by Natasha Daniels | Redkite Book Club

Palliative and bereavement books

The Grief Rock

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Grief Rock

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Love From Above

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Love From Above

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

Just Because

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Just Because

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Scans book cover

Diagnosis & treatment

My Scans, Angus Olsen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Scans, Angus Olsen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Living Well With My Serious Illness

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Living Well With My Serious Illness

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Port book cover

Diagnosis & treatment

My Port, Angus Olsen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Port, Angus Olsen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Big Tree Is Sick by Nathalie Slosse and Rocio Del Moral | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

Big Tree Is Sick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Big Tree Is Sick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Friend Alice by Crystal Leonardi | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

My Friend Alice, Crystal Leonardi

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Friend Alice, Crystal Leonardi

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Brother Sebastian by Crystal Leonardi | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

My Brother Sebastian, Crystal Leonardi

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Brother Sebastian, Crystal Leonardi

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Upside Down and Backwards, A Sibling's Journey Through Childhood Cancer by Julie Greves, Katy Tenhulzen and Fred Wilkinson | Redkite Book Club

Fiction books on cancer

Upside Down and Backwards

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Upside Down and Backwards

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Childhood Brain and Spinal Tumours, Shiminski-Maher, McGuire Cullen, Sansalone

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Childhood Brain and Spinal Tumours, Shiminski-Maher, McGuire Cullen, Sansalone

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Central Line is a book by Angus Olsen and is available through Redkite's Book Club

Talking about emotions

My Central Line, Angus Jorgen Olsen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Central Line, Angus Jorgen Olsen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

There’s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

There’s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Amelia has cancer, Alison Johns

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Amelia has cancer, Alison Johns

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Lucy has a tumour

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Lucy has a tumour

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

The Hair Holiday

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Hair Holiday

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

Alfie’s Big Wish, David Hardy

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Alfie’s Big Wish, David Hardy

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

The Bald Headed Princess: Cancer, Chemo & Courage, Maribeth Ditmars

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Bald Headed Princess: Cancer, Chemo & Courage, Maribeth Ditmars

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Gratitude Cloak by Katie Hammond | Redkite Book Club

Diagnosis & treatment

The Gratitude Cloak

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Gratitude Cloak

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

What Cancer Taught me - Jake Bailey

Cancer stories from young people

What Cancer Taught me

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

What Cancer Taught me

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

I Feel Frightened, Brian Moses

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

I Feel Frightened, Brian Moses

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

I’m not her

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

I’m not her

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Hero Hunter and the Wonky White Cells

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Hero Hunter and the Wonky White Cells

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Children grieve too – Helping children cope with Grief

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Children grieve too – Helping children cope with Grief

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Starbright – Meditations for children

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Starbright – Meditations for children

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Healing Images for Children, Nancy Klein

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Healing Images for Children, Nancy Klein

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Finishing treament

After Cancer – A Guide to Living Well

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

After Cancer – A Guide to Living Well

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

The Invisible String, Patrice Karst

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Invisible String, Patrice Karst

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Badger’s Parting gifts

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Badger’s Parting gifts

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Cancer stories from young people

Lessons from my left testicle

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Lessons from my left testicle

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Cancer stories from young people

Willpower Girl – A Teenager trek through Cancer

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Willpower Girl – A Teenager trek through Cancer

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

My Many Coloured Days, Dr Seuss

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Many Coloured Days, Dr Seuss

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Mary has a brain tumour

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Mary has a brain tumour

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Cancer stories from young people

My (So Called) Normal Life, Erin Zammett

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My (So Called) Normal Life, Erin Zammett

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

The Kissing Hand, Audrey Penn

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Kissing Hand, Audrey Penn

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?, Trevor Romain

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?, Trevor Romain

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Gentle Willow, a Story for Children About Dying, Joyce Mills

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Gentle Willow, a Story for Children About Dying, Joyce Mills

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

When I Miss You, Cornelia Spelman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When I Miss You, Cornelia Spelman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

When Dinosaurs Die; A Guide to Understanding Death, Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Dinosaurs Die; A Guide to Understanding Death, Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

Feeling Sad, Kay Barnham

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Feeling Sad, Kay Barnham

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

The Little Book of Loss & Grief You Can Read while You Cry, Liz Crowe

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Little Book of Loss & Grief You Can Read while You Cry, Liz Crowe

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

My Sibling Above

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

My Sibling Above

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Water Bugs and Dragonflys; Explaining Death to Children, Doris Stickney

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Water Bugs and Dragonflys; Explaining Death to Children, Doris Stickney

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Beyond Words: Grieving when your child has died, Andrew Thomson and Tricia Irving Hendry

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Beyond Words: Grieving when your child has died, Andrew Thomson and Tricia Irving Hendry

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

In My Heart, Jo Witek

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

In My Heart, Jo Witek

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

What’s Dead Mean? How to Help Children Cope with Death, Doris Zagdanski

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

What’s Dead Mean? How to Help Children Cope with Death, Doris Zagdanski

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

What Does Dead Mean? A Book for Young Children to Help Explain Death and Dying, Caroline Jay and Jenni Thomas

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

What Does Dead Mean? A Book for Young Children to Help Explain Death and Dying, Caroline Jay and Jenni Thomas

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

When Someone Very Special Dies, Marge Eaton Heegaard

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Someone Very Special Dies, Marge Eaton Heegaard

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

I Miss You – a First Look at Death, Pat Thomas

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

I Miss You – a First Look at Death, Pat Thomas

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, Judith Viorst

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, Judith Viorst

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

Two Weeks with the Queen, Morris Gleitzman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Two Weeks with the Queen, Morris Gleitzman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

The Memory Garden: Iris’ Story

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Memory Garden: Iris’ Story

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

The Memory Garden: Hazel’s Story

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Memory Garden: Hazel’s Story

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes In Between, Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Beginnings and Endings with Lifetimes In Between, Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

When A Friend Dies: A Book for Teens About Grieving & Healing, Marilyn Gootman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When A Friend Dies: A Book for Teens About Grieving & Healing, Marilyn Gootman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

By My Side: stories of parents whose child has died from cancer

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

By My Side: stories of parents whose child has died from cancer

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

After Ever After, Jordan Sonnenblick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

After Ever After, Jordan Sonnenblick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, Jordan Sonnenblick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, Jordan Sonnenblick

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Finishing treament

Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future, Nancy Keene, Wendy Hobbie and Kathy Ruccione

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future, Nancy Keene, Wendy Hobbie and Kathy Ruccione

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Childhood Leukaemia: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers, Nancy Keene

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Childhood Leukaemia: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers, Nancy Keene

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Beyond the Rainbow: A Workbook for Children in the Advanced Stages of a Very Serious Illness, Marge Eaton Heegard

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Beyond the Rainbow: A Workbook for Children in the Advanced Stages of a Very Serious Illness, Marge Eaton Heegard

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

Keep Your Hair On, Elizabeth Vercoe

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Keep Your Hair On, Elizabeth Vercoe

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Childhood Cancer: A Parent’s Guide to Solid Tumour Cancers, Nancy Keene

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Childhood Cancer: A Parent’s Guide to Solid Tumour Cancers, Nancy Keene

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

The Memory Garden: Leo’s Story

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Memory Garden: Leo’s Story

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Promoting Psychological Wellbeing in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness, Melinda Edwards and Penny Titman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Promoting Psychological Wellbeing in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness, Melinda Edwards and Penny Titman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine: Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died, Diana Crossley

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine: Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died, Diana Crossley

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

Guided Imagery for Healing Children and Teens: Wellness Through Visualization, Ellen Curran

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Guided Imagery for Healing Children and Teens: Wellness Through Visualization, Ellen Curran

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Fiction books on cancer

Not Now I’m Having a No Hair Day: Humor and Healing for People with Cancer, Christine Clifford

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Not Now I’m Having a No Hair Day: Humor and Healing for People with Cancer, Christine Clifford

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Living with Childhood Cancer: A Practical Guide to Help Families Cope, Leigh Wolznick and Carol Goodheart

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Living with Childhood Cancer: A Practical Guide to Help Families Cope, Leigh Wolznick and Carol Goodheart

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Cancer stories from young people

Cancer Vixen: A True Story, Marisa Acocella Marchetto

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Cancer Vixen: A True Story, Marisa Acocella Marchetto

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Helping Teens Work Through Grief, Mary Kelly Perschy

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Helping Teens Work Through Grief, Mary Kelly Perschy

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Sometimes, Rebecca Elliott

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Sometimes, Rebecca Elliott

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Palliative and bereavement books

Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies, Janice Silverman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies, Janice Silverman

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Eight Seasons: Our Family’s Journey With Childhood Leukaemia, Sandra Evans

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Eight Seasons: Our Family’s Journey With Childhood Leukaemia, Sandra Evans

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Big and Loud Things, Inger Maier

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Big and Loud Things, Inger Maier

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Losing His Mother, Inger Maier

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

When Fuzzy Was Afraid of Losing His Mother, Inger Maier

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

The Huge Bag of Worries, Virginia Ironside

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

The Huge Bag of Worries, Virginia Ironside

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

A Terrible Thing Happened, Margaret Holmes

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

A Terrible Thing Happened, Margaret Holmes

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Diagnosis & treatment

Going to the Hospital, Anne Civardi

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Going to the Hospital, Anne Civardi

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

It’s OK to be Different, Todd Parr

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

It’s OK to be Different, Todd Parr

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

Giraffes can’t dance, Giles Andreae

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Giraffes can’t dance, Giles Andreae

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

I Like Me, Nancy Carlson

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

I Like Me, Nancy Carlson

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

Little Tree, Chrystyna Edwards

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Little Tree, Chrystyna Edwards

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

Feeling Worried, Kay Barnham

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Feeling Worried, Kay Barnham

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

I’m Happy, Claire Hibbert

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

I’m Happy, Claire Hibbert

A storybook written for parents and carers to read with their children to help them understand what a tumour is and what treatment involves.

Talking about emotions

I Feel Angry, Brian Moses

I Feel Angry looks at the emotion anger, in a light-hearted but ultimately reassuring way. This book examines how and why people get angry, illustrates scenarios of people behaving angrily, and the best way to deal with it.

I Feel Angry, Brian Moses

I Feel Angry looks at the emotion anger, in a light-hearted but ultimately reassuring way. This book examines how and why people get angry, illustrates scenarios of people behaving angrily, and the best way to deal with it.

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