The STC Bookshelf
A collection of all the health-related children’s books we’ve read and recommended on the Storytime Clinic podcast (and a few extras!).
ADHD
A Dragon with ADHD
Steve Herman
Audience: 5-8yrs
Features: Picture book, ADHD symptoms, famous people with ADHD, behavioral skills
Albinism
Golden Like Me
Brandi M. Green
Audience: 4-8yrs
Features: Picture book, albinism education, community, sun care
A Blind Guide to Stinkville
Beth Vrabel
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: Visual impairment/blindness; visual aide, walking aide, school for the blind
Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: Graphic novel, Pet allergies, skin prick test, allergist visit, immunotherapy
My Perfect Cupcake
Rebecca Greene
Audience: 3-7 years
Features: Picture Book, Food allergy, anaphylaxis, allergist visit, allergen-free recipe
Alopecia Areata
What’s Silly Hair Day with no Hair?
Norene Paulson
Audience: 4-7yrs
Features: Picture book, self-confidence
Jacob’s Eye Patch
Beth Kobliner Shaw and Jacob Shaw
Audience: 4-8yrs
Features: Picture Book, eye patch, respectful interactions
Iggy and the Inhalers
Alex Thomas
Audience: 6-12 years
Features: Comic book, asthma education (triggers, inhaler types & technique, activity sheets)
Can You See Me
Libby Scott, Rebecca Westcott
Audience: Middle Grade
Features:
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr Temple Grandin
Julia Finley Mosca
Audience: 4-9years
Features: Picture Book, rhyming, biography
Blindness/Visual Impairment
Six Dots – A Story of young Louis Braille
Jen Bryant
Audience: 4-8years
Features: picture book, biography, history of Braille
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes – The Story of Dr Patricia Bath
Julia Finley Mosca
Audience: 5-10years
Features: picture book, biography of female doctor, rhyming book
Wink
Rob Herman
Audience: Middle grade
Features: radiation therapy, bully, some comic strips
Halfway Normal
Barbara Dee
Audience: Middle grade
Features: leukemia survivor, adjusting to life after illness
Congenital Heart Defects
Hank the Heart
Ryan Moore, John Hutton
Audience: 4-8years
Features: picture book, learning about the heart – anatomy, function, how doctors check on the heart, how to keep the heart healthy, examples of heart defects
Jack’s New Smile
Ruth Trivelpiece, Suzanne West, Jennifer Rhodes
Audience: 4-8years
Features: picture book, explaining cleft lip and palate to sibling, surgery
Five Feet Apart
Rachel Lipincott
Audience: Young Adult
Features: terminal illness, quality of life, romance
Dental Caries
Sugarbug Doug
Dr Ben Magleby
Audience: 8-12years
Features: picture book, why and how to keep teeth clean
Depression
The Science of Breakable Things
Tae Keller
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: parental depression
Diabetes, Type I
Portia’s Incredible Journey
Emma Price
Audience: Elementary
Features: visit to endocrinologist, diabetes diagnosis and management. Diabetes camp
Type 1 DM: The Comic Series
Revolve Comics
Audience: Elementary and Up
Features: Comic; diabetes self management skills
EMarcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: bullying, special education and inclusive classrooms, Puerto Rican culture
47 Strings: Tessa’s Special Code
Becky Carey
Audience: Elementary
Features: Picture book, explaining Down Syndrome to sibling
Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: learning difficulty, influential teacher, bullying
Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis)
An Itch for Agnes
Elisabeth Anne George
Audience: 4-8 years
Features: picture book, self-advocacy
My Ecz-ellent Day at Camp
Tracee Blackburn
Audience: 3-7 years
Features: Picture Book, eczema camp
Kinda Like Brothers
Coe Booth
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: foster care, mental health, child abuse
El Deafo
Cece Bell
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: Graphic novel, hearing aids, sign language
Cyborg Cat: Rise of the Parsons Road Gang
Ade Adepitan
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: Disability, sports (soccer), mobility aide (leg brace)
When Charley Met Emma
Amy Webb
Audience: 3-7 years
Features: Picture Book, limb differences, wheelchair, modelling respect & acceptance
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything
Annette Bay Pimental
Audience:4-8 years
Features: Picture book, Biography, Advocacy, Accesibility
What Happened to You
James Catchpole
Audience: <5years
Features: Picture Book, limb differences, respectful interactions
What the Wind Can Tell You
Sarah Marie Jette
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: sibling relationship, severe intellectual and physical disability, wheelchair, quality of life, fantasy
Meena Meets Her Match
Karla Manternach
Audience: 8-12yrs
Features: absence seizures, anxiety & emotions surrounding uncertain diagnosis
Braced
Alyson Gerber
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: medical device (scoliosis brace), sports (soccer), self-advocacy, voicing emotions
When Oliver Speaks
Kimberly Garvin, Saadiq Wicks
Audience: 8-12yrs
Features: Picture book, public speaking, self-acceptance
Unstuck
Stephen Groner
Audience: 8-12yrs
Features: Picture book, self-acceptance
Forget Me Not
Ellie Terry
Audience: Middle Grade
Features: friendship, moving, standing up against bullying
Medical Settings, Devices & Procedures
The Hospital Bedtime Story*
Jessica Ehret
Audience: 5-10yrs
Features: overnight hospital stay, familiarizing with hospital routines, personnel, equipment
*Discussed in our Child Life interview episode
Ari The Brave’s Jungle Journey
Krystal Wallick
Audience: 4-8yrs
Features: picture book, adventure, coping with a medical procedure
Wearing Braces
Harriet Brundle
Audience: 4-8 years
Features: picture book, orthodontist visit
Tattletale Tommy and the Touching Tonsils
Katine Currin
Audience: Elementary
Features: Tonsillitis, visit to ENT doctor, preparing for surgical procedure and anesthesia