What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer?: Explain the Science of Cancer and How a Loved One's Diagnosis and Treatment Affects a Kid's Day-To-day Life (What About Me? Books)

I bought is book to help my 8 and 6 year old grand daughters understand what their mothers situation. Easy for 8 year old to read herself. Colorful illustrations.

This is way over a toddler's understanding. It is a relatively long book that tries to explain the science of it all. My 4 year old likes it well enough, but it takes multiple sittings to read it. It is well written and helpful.

An awesome book to read for children and adults to understand what someone is doing throughout their cancer journey and treatments. .

Just wow. I want to thank the author for this fantastic book. My mom was recently diagnosed with cancer and I was totally stumped about how to explain it to my 4 and 6 year olds. They were riveted by this book, and it led them to ask great questions (which the book answered). I even learned more about what to expect from chemo and radiation. THANK YOU for sharing your experience as a mom and cancer survivor so that kids could learn about the illness in a clear and non-scary way.

This is a great book for the inquisitive child. The science in it makes it unique to other books I picked to discuss my cancer with my 4 year old. It was a bit long for her young age, but she's constantly asking about how the bad cells work. The science part is great and I wish it had focused a bit more on that. So, it definitely is readable to a 4 year old but probably better for older kids. Love it anyway and we've read it a bunch already.

The media could not be loaded. I have a very inquisitive 5 yr old and my dad was recently diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer.I could tell that my oldest was seeing and noticing the changes but I wasn’t sure how to explain it or talk about it with him so I avoided inviting conversation and questions from him on the subject.It was happening so quickly and I couldn’t seem to get my footing on how to describe it and hoping to spare him of extra fear and concern I didn’t want to add worry into his thinking.This book was super helpful!A friend of mine that is a counselor recommended it so I had decent expectations but I was leery of how it would describe cancer. I explain this in the video I made and attached, but it was written to where the person with cancer could be just about anyone! So it won’t take much or any explanation when reading it to a kid who’s parent has cancer vs a kid who’s grandparent has cancer and so on.I recommend it for sure!

Started our journey and things are happening fast, my daughter is only 4 but she’s extremely smart and asking so many questions about her “tumor” and now the sudden hair loss. This book will help so much

Simple book explaining different types of cancer treatments. Best book we found to explain what the disease is and how it will affect kids. Good ideas on how to manage expectations with a calendar.

As someone with cancer I found this book very helpful for the young people in my life to understand in an age-appropriate way what cancer is.

This is such a fantastic way to explain cancer, how its treatment can affect people and how it can affect everyday life explained in such a relatable way.

Exactly the kind of book I was looking for to help explain the position with my sons grandpa. He was interested & asked many questions after. Incredibly helpful with enough detail for kids to comprehend.

Having to tell kids that someone they love has cancer is tough. This short book really helped my 5 year old understand what cancer is and what to expect as I go through chemotherapy. I actually read it before I told her, and it helped me frame the conversation. For anyone wondering, it doesn't talk about cancer spreading, etc - which was definitely not a possibility I wanted to have her thinking of, so I'm happy.

Got this to help explain to a autistic child that her grandma is sick would recommend for anyone with kids to help them with this situation. Would recommend u read it furst yourself as was hard to read out loud without tearing up myself but after reading it first was easier to keep together fot kids so didn't upset them more.