Tickles Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy

By Amelia Frahm

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970575203
• ISBN13: 9780970575203
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Nutcracker Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Your kids know

Beautifully illustrated, the story offers a child's perspective of mommy's cancer-tankerous moods during cancer treatment. I'm of the mind that children should be given details about issues faced by families. It's naive to assume that by shushing conversations within ear shot of kids, they will be kept protected from the truth of illness. Cancer treatments are no picnic in the park. Amelia makes that clear in her book, without sacrificing the clear message of love for her family. If you are a mom going through cancer treatment, I would highly recommend this book. This review is posted on my blog. www.breastofcanada.blogspot.com

Helps kids understand how illness can affect a parent's mood

Tabitha's mother has cancer and has to undergo chemotherapy. The treatments make the mother's hair fall out and give her a huge appetite. Worse still, the treatment makes her tired and irritable. Tabitha misses their warm tickle games. Tabitha, her brother and even the cat get frightened when their mother gets angry. When their father sees this, he uses love and humor to help provide support. Tabitha finds a way to get her mother to show her old warmth. The superb illustrations are warm and expressive. When the picture shows the shadow of the angry mother, wig askew, standing over Tabitha, one really gets the sense of how Tabitha experiences her mother just then. Mood changes are more difficult for children to understand than the more concrete aspects of an illness. This book does an excellent job of showing how these mood The story is realistic without being scarey. This book would be good not just for children of cancer patients but also for children of parents withother chronic diseases such as Hepatitis C. A variety of illness and treatments can cause an individual to be irritable or moody.

Uses humor to deal with sensitive issues

My 6 year old daughter loves this book. Her mom was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and this book deals with issues like crankiness, which is relevant in her life right now. It also covers hair loss, which she is particularly interested in. (The tickling helps make the book more fun, too.) I would recommend this to those who like to add some humore to a bad cancer day.

"a special book"

I really enjoyed Tickles Tabitha and how this sensitive topic was portrayed. It really hit home and helps children along during a difficult time.

Excellent children's book

This is a humorous book that deals not just with cancer but with family life. My favorite part is Tabitha's mental picture of Daddy sitting in the time out chair. I wish I had had this book when my children where presented with a close neighbor who had cancer. Wether a child has a parent, grandparent, friend or friend's parent in their life who has cancer, this is an excellent book to use to start talking about it. Because it portrays family life in general in a funny way, it is good for any child.