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 Renea Jo Zosel
Diabetes: This book truly is written by an expert... a mom! Mothers of small kids with
diabetes pay a big price and I think they are the unsung heros of our society.
Imagine, never being able to take a break for years on end. Never being able to
really let go for fear your child might experience a blood sugar too high or too
low sending her to the hospital... or worse. My son has diabetes and has told me
several times that it's not fair and that "he'll never have a carefree
childhood". This book says the same thing for the mothers and the kids they care
for who live with this crappy disease.
 Virginia Nasmyth Loy
Real Life Parenting of Kids with Diabetes: When Loy's sons, Spike and Bo, were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within a year
of each other, Loy became an expert on managing the disease. Earlier this year,
Spike and Bo (now in their teens) wrote Getting a Grip on Diabetes, and
now Loy weighs in with her advice for parents.
 Betty Page Brackenridge
Sweet Kids: In Sweet Kids, you get all of the practical, reassuring advice you need
to care for children with diabetes. This new edition includes information on the
latest medications and recommendations from the recently completed Diabetes
Prevention Program.
 Ragnar Hanas
Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults:: It is an incredible book, which deals in depth with every detail of
diabetes care in young people. Dr Charles Fox, Consultant Physician at Northampton General Hospital, UK
 American Diabetes Assn.
Getting the Most out of Diabetes Camp: A Guide for Parents ahd Kids. Along with anecdotes and stories from campers, Getting the Most Out of
Diabetes Camp covers topics such as why go to a diabetes camp, is your child
ready, which camp is best for your child, what to expect, what not to expect,
how to evaluate your child's experience, and more.
 Tim Wysocki
The Ten Keys to Helping Your Child With Diabetes: This second edition explores the wide range of physical, emotional, and
psychological issues that affect diabetic children and helps parents deal with
them. New to this edition are topics such as children living with type 2
diabetes and the special needs of children using an insulin pump. Wysocki, Ph.D. is the chief of the division of
psychology and psychiatry at Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida,
and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
 Colberg/Friesz
Diabetes Free Kids: Diabetes-Free Kids is the first book to address the burgeoning epidemic
of type 2 diabetes among children and to provide parents with an action plan for
halting it. Exercise physiologist Sheri Colberg and nutritionist Mary Friesz lay
out a clear plan for diet and exercise that will get even the pickiest eaters to
enjoy healthier yet satisfying meals and snacks, and will motivate the most
sedentary children to start moving. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., is an exercise physiologist and associate professor of
exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She
specializes in research in diabetes and exercise.
Mary Friesz, Ph.D.,
R.D., LDN, is a nutrition and wellness consultant who works with children and
adults, specializing in weight management, diabetes control, and preventive
lifestyle behavior modification.
 Elisa B. Hendel
A Child in Your Care Has Diabetes:: A 60+ page book filled with crucial information about diabetes; designed for
teachers, caretakers, baby sitters or any individual seeking simplified
information about this complex condition.
The pages inside this book, help to educate, organize and assist individuals
in the care of an individual with diabetes. Information is presented in a
straightforward manner. Each book should last forever. The charts and lists are
left blank – to accommodate changes in treatment or other important information.
It can be used by an entire school district, camp or organized group in the
management of one child or several children with diabetes. This book is unique.
There are presently no other books, concerning Children with Diabetes, quite
like it.
 Holleroth/Kaplan
Everyone Likes to Eat: How Children Can Eat Most of the Foods They Enjoy and Still Take Care of Their
Diabetes
 Betschart-Roemer/Thom
In Control: "Practical, meaningful, and highly enjoyable. There are not many books out there
for teenagers with diabetes. In Control fills a gap and really meets that need."
—JoAnn Ahern, RN, MSN, CDE Pediatric Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist, Yale
University • Books to Fund a Cure • A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to
the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, a not-for-profit voluntary
health agency, whose primary objective is to support and fund research to find
the cause, cure, treatment, and prevention of diabetes and its complications.
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Library Illustrator P.S. Mueller’s cartoons appear
in more than 30 major city weekly newspapers throughout the country and in such
magazines as Harper’s, Health, The Esquire Gentleman, Hippocrates, and The Utne
Reader.
 Cindy Dell Clark
In Sickness and In Play: Children Coping with a Chornic Illness: For children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled with endless
treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and embarrassment. How can an
eight-year-old girl understand diabetes, let alone explain to her schoolmates
why she has to leave class to have her blood tested? How can the father of a
child with asthma ever sleep soundly through the night with the fear that his
son may suffocate in the next room?
In this book, Cindy Dell Clark tells the stories of children who suffer from
two common illnesses that are often underestimated by those not directly touched
by them—asthma and diabetes. She describes how play, humor, and other expressive
methods, invented by the children themselves, allow families to cope with the
pain. Her interviews with forty-six families give readers an understanding of
how children comprehend their illnesses and how parents struggle to care for
their sons and daughters while trying to give them a "normal" childhood.
Chronically ill children are at a greater risk of developing mental health or
social adjustment problems than their peers, and asthma has been gaining ground
in both incidence and fatality in recent years. This eye-opening work emphasizes
the importance of improving the lives of these children by understanding their
perspectives, both imagined and real.
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 Spike & Bo Lo Nasmyth
Getting a Grip on Diabetes: Brothers Spike Nasmyth Loy and Bo Nasmyth Loy, now college students, have
managed diabetes since they were diagnosed at the ages of seven and six,
respectively. In Getting a Grip on Diabetes: Quick Tips & Techniques for
Kids and Teens, the Loy brothers team up with physicians Janet Silverstein and
Marc Weigensberg to help other young diabetics learn how to take charge of their
health as they become more independent in all aspects of their lives. From how
to recognize the dangers of a low-blood-sugar crisis to adjusting insulin levels
while playing a sport, the Loys present vital information in a clear, friendly
format that should instill confidence in their young audience.
 Marsha Levine Mazur
The Dinosaur Tamer: Twenty-five fictional stories that will entertain, enlighten, and ease a
child's frustration about having diabetes.
 Gosselin/Freidman
Taking Diabetes to School: This color illustrated book for elementary age children contains an instructive
story of a grade- schooler with diabetes who tells his classmates about the
disease and how he manages it. The story offers sensitive insight into the
day-to-day "school life" of a child with a chronic illness.
 Michael & Steven Olsen
How I feel: This book is amazing! It was written by the older brother of a 7-year-old who
was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and really captures the emotions of the
child and the family as they learn to cope with the disease. The drawings are so
charming and overall the story is very uplifting. The diabetes facts are all
very accurate too. Every family learning how to deal with diabetes should read
this book! Posted by Amazon Reader
 Pirner/Wescott
Even Little Kids Get Diabetes: PreSchool-K-- A reasurring book for a potentially frightening discovery. Written
for children who have recently learned that they have diabetes, it discusses
symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and treatment. No punches are pulled: the young
patient relates her hospital stay, explains how she must have injections
everyday (and will eventually give them to herself), and states her frustration
at never being able to eat sweets, even at a birthday party. Language is simple,
age appropriate, and effectively gets the point across. The ink-and-watercolor
drawings are lively and often upbeat, with small touches that reflect reality,
such as a hospital scene in which the patient's teddy bear is outfitted with an
I. V. board too. Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is the "note for
parents," which relates Pirner's personal experience over the last three years
in caring for a diabetic child. The book fills a definite void, as other titles
on the subject are geared for much older readers. --Denise L. Moll, Lone Pine
Elementary School, West Bloomfield, MI
 Muldar/Friar
Sarah and Puffle: Cheryl Barry, RN, MS, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle
posts "It's just what is needed for children, or grandparents,
babysitters, and extended family."
 Rocky Lang/Sara Huss
Lara Takes Charge: Dr. Kevin Kaiserman, Clinical Diabetes Program, Children's Hospital Los
Angeles reports: "This book goes straight to core of living with a chronic
illness. It is a positive and brilliantly illustrated message."
 Bo & Spike Loy
487 Really Tips for Kids with Diabetes: Kids living with diabetes face a world of challenges, and yet, there are few
things they can't do. This book is packed full of tips that kids have sent to
Spike and Bo (brothers with type 1 diabetes) , authors of Getting a Grip on Diabetes for Kids and Teens.
Tips cover everything from playing sports to accidents to hormones.
 Sheppard/Jones
Life With Diabetes: "Life with Diabetes, is adorable, simple
and sweet, yet addresses so many questions children have about diabetes." Janette Kirkham RN, CDE
 Patti B. Geil
Cooking Up Fun for Kids with Diabetes: Here are simple, fun, healthy recipes and activities for kids with diabetes
that they can make themselves or with their parents. Recipes and projects help kids understand the importance of food to their
health.
Rufus Comes home: After being sent to the hospital, Brian finds out has diabetes. Brian's mother
decides to get a stuffed bear for Brian. She sews special patches on the same
areas where Brian gets his insulin shots and puts hearts on the paws where Brian
gets his fingers pricked for glucose testing. Brian now has his own "diabetic"
bear with which to share his fears and experiences.
 Robert Messinger
Why Me? Why Did I Have to Get Diabetes? Lawrence A. Silverman, MD, Goryeb Children's Hospital, Atlantic Health
System writes: "Child's eye view of diabetes. Issues that parents, professionals
don't always see and hear are addressed. "
 Peacock/Gregory/Jones
Sugar Was My Best Friend: Gr. 3^-6. In a voice so genuine readers will think they are being directly
addressed, 11-year-old Adair Gregory describes his learning, at the age of 9,
that he has diabetes. He recounts the enormous changes the condition brought to
his life--from pricking himself to test his blood sugar and learning to give
himself insulin injections to giving up sweets--and he poignantly conveys the
effects the illness has had on his family, his struggles with his peers, and his
feelings of being different. His remarkable attitude and lack of self-pity will
help draw readers into the book, as will the simple pencil sketches, contributed
by Mary Jones. Adair also gives his mailing and e-mail addresses: he wants, he
says, to help some kid with diabetes "get his life back." Mission accomplished,
Adair. Shelley Townsend-Hudson
Cooper Has Diabetes: Ages 4-8
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Information on
Gestational Diabetes
Unfortunately, there are not many good books out on gestational diabetes (GD). The few Amazon offers were not rated highly (bear in mind few people actually rated these books). Feel free to purchase either of the books from our site, however, you might wish to visit your local book store to browse through books on gestational diabetes before buying one.
Since GD is a form of type 2 diabetes and is treated in the same fashion, you may wish to preview our book offerings on type 2 diabetes instead. Information about type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes can also be found online. Try "Resource Links" on our site:
Type 2 Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes
IOH Resources
 American Diabetes Assn.
Gestational Diabetes: Gestational diabetes is a rare and not well understood form of diabetes. It
only appears in pregnancy and usually disappears afterward, but proper self-care
during pregnancy is still crucial. Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect,
a comprehensive guide for the woman with gestational diabetes, explains the
proper elements of self-care, including nutritious meal planning, proper insulin
therapy, and accurate blood sugar monitoring.
 Lois Jovanovic-Peterson
Managing Your Gestational Diabetes:
For Preexisting Diabetes and Pregnancy
 Patti Bazel
Geil, et. al.
101 Tips for
a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes: The newest
installment in the American Diabetes Association's bestselling 101 Tips series
helps women with diabetes cope with pregnancy using a quick, easy-to- read
question-&-answer format. 101 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes
offers tips on topics such as pre-pregnancy; nutrition; managing medication;
managing diabetes during pregnancy; making it through labor; postpartum; and
much more.
Diabetes Fiction for Children
Beheaded; Survived: Grades 3-6. Jane doesn't want anyone to know about her diabetes during the three weeks that
she tours England with a group of students, and begs her sister Courtney to help
her keep the secret. No picture available.
BCB #03: Stacey, a member of the Baby-sitters Club, struggles with her parents who refuse
to believe that she has diabetes.
Diabetes Isn't Everything: Grade 5-8 While this reads like a case history or a manual for newly diagnosed
diabetics, it also will have appeal for readers of realistic problem novels.
Amy, 11, is hiding her diabetic symptoms as the book begins, not knowing what
they are. Her overwhelming hunger and thirst, her fatigue, and her frequent need
to urinate are masked with the determination that only a budding adolescent who
doesn't want to appear ``different'' can muster...
 Hautman
Sweet Blood: The author traces a vampire-obsessed 16-year-old diabetic's steep slide downward
as she is intellectually seduced by a middle-aged cybervamp via the Internet.
"The exotic theme coupled with the heroine's highly recognizable feelings of
oddity and isolation make for a tantalizing read," said PW in a starred
review. Ages 12-up.
 Deborah Kent
Why Me? Living With A Secret: Cassie Mullins is fed up with her parents, who think she can't be trusted to
manage her diabetes. Just because she cheated on her diet and landed in the
hospital. Just because she wants to be a normal kid. Only Aunt Liz seems to
understand, and she urges Cassie to take a job as counselor at a camp for
diabetic children. Camp Caribou seems like the perfect solution. Cassie's free
and her parents think she's safe. There's only one problem: she's the only
counselor who is diabetic. And she has decided to keep it a secret.
It's not easy to conceal the truth. Cassie can't even tell Jason, the cute
counselor who has become a special friend. Her world falls apart when her
parents show up unexpectedly and reveal her secret. Cassie's furious and
ashamed. And Jason feels betrayed that she hadn't told him. Suddenly, nothing
seems to matter. Why be careful when nobody trusts her anyway?
 Alden R. Carter
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Crisis looms large when two teenage cousins, one of whom is diabetic, are sent
on a week-long canoe trip, their family's traditional rite of manhood. Ages
10-up.
 Nicholson
Interference: This book is a terrific read for adults as well as young people and speaks the
truth about diabetes. Josh will be a hockey player with diabetes, not a diabetic
hockey player. Josh has finally made it to an
elite hockey team but no one knows that he has Type 1 diabetes -- and it's
getting more serious by the day
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All The Days of Her Life: One Last Wish: Grades 4-8. Out of control - that's how Lacey Duval feels in almost every aspect of her
life. There's nothing she can do about her parents divorce, there's nothing she
can do about the death of her young friend, there's nothing she can do about
having diabetes - that's what Lacey believes.
After a special summer at Jenny
House, Lacey is determined to put her problems behind her. When she returns to
high school, she is driven to become a part of the in crowd and win the
attention of gorgeous Todd Larson. But Lacey thinks fitting in means losing
weight and hiding her diabetes. She starts skipping means and experimenting with
her medication - sometimes ignoring it all together.
Her friends from the
summer caution her to face her problems before catastrophe strikes. Is it too
late to stop the destructive process Lacey has set in motion?
 LoJoie
Mom Says I''m Sweet: I Have Diabetes: A story about a boy named Anthony who develops Type 2 Diabetes due to his
inactivity and obesity. The story is his account of how he is diagnosed and
lives daily with having this disease
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 Andie Dominick
Needles: The story of one family's experience coping with disease. Andie knew all about
needles because her older sister Denise was diabetic and she used them daily for
insulin shots. As young children, Andie and her brother picked the used ones out
of the trash and played with them. Then, when the author was nine, she herself
was diagnosed as diabetic and the games were over. Needles became the
instruments she needed to manage her life, literally and figuratively. She
learned what powerful instruments they could be when, at 21, she found her
sister dead as a result of neglect and self-abuse. The story is not a pretty
one, but it does illustrate the control one has over some of life's seemingly
uncontrollable situations. This fact is important for teens to learn and
understand. Dominick, who was about 26-years-old when she wrote this book,
relates her experience in a way that will appeal to young adults.
 Lisa Roney
Sweet Invisible Body: More than 16 million people in the United States have diabetes. Despite the
ability of medicine to control the disease partially, its long-term
complications make it the seventh leading cause of death in this country.
Diabetics are more likely to suffer from heart disease, strokes, blindness,
renal disease, and lower-limb amputations. Roney was diagnosed with diabetes in
1972, just before her 12th birthday, and her life has been indelibly marked by
the physical and psychological effects of the disease. Candid, beautifully
written, and touching, this exploration of the hidden sequelae of diabetes will
spark recognition in anyone who lives with a chronic condition, especially those
physical and psychological conditions that are invisible to casual observers.
Suitable for the general public and highly recommended for all libraries.
 Nicole Johnson
Living with Diabetes: Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999: Forget everything you thought you knew about the Miss America Pageant. After
reading Nicole Johnson's Book "Living with Diabetes," it's clear this
independent-thinking reformer immediately stepped off her pageant runway and
into the trenches as a hands-on activist, lobbying for more comprehensive
medical funding as well as raising both public consciousness and millions of
dollars for diabetes research, forever metamorphosing public opinion along the
way.
Explaining, in easy to comprehend layperson's terms, the symptoms, causes,
effects and potential cures for diabetes, Nicole provides an invaluable and
potentially lifesaving public service in a format that is both sincere and
heartwarming.
"Living with Diabetes" is classic American autobiography at its
finest--candid, funny, introspective and inspiring--and is destined to become
the great American success story of this decade.
 Gladys Knight
At Home With Gladys Knight: Gladys Knight doesn't have diabetes, but the disease is never far from her
mind. Her mother, Elizabeth Knight, died of complications in 1998 after living
successfully with diabetes for 40 years.
Following her mother's death, Gladys started the Elizabeth Knight Fund with
the American Diabetes Association to help people living with diabetes. The
singing legend has also been eating healthfully and exercising regularly for
many years. At Home With Gladys Knight's is more than a collection of recipes.
It's an inspirational guide that people with diabetes can use to lead a full and
healthy life with the disease.
Renea Jo Zosel
Diabetes: This book truly is written by an expert... a mom! Mothers of small kids with
diabetes pay a big price and I think they are the unsung heros of our society.
Imagine, never being able to take a break for years on end. Never being able to
really let go for fear your child might experience a blood sugar too high or too
low sending her to the hospital... or worse. My son has diabetes and has told me
several times that it's not fair and that "he'll never have a carefree
childhood". This book says the same thing for the mothers and the kids they care
for who live with this crappy disease.
 Deb Butterfield
Showdown With Diabetes: Butterfield was diagnosed with diabetes at age 10; at age 34 she received a
successful pancreas/kidney transplant, and was cured of the disease. Five years
later, Butterfield takes only small daily oral doses of immunosuppressive drugs
to prevent organ rejection, and she is the director of the Insulin-Free World
Foundation, devoted to finding cures for diabetes. Here she first chronicles her
own struggle with the disease and then offers similarly affected readers a
thorough, up-to-date guide to current research and future possibilities for
their own cures. Butterfield makes crystal clear from the outset that the burden
of having diabetes is ``grossly underestimated'' by medical professionals and
the general public. Butterfield rejects out of hand the standard establishment
line (see Touchette, below) that careful disease management leads to healthy
living. Despite her adhering religiously to her treatment regimen, ``within a
four-year period diabetes killed the nerves below my knees, caused bleeding in
the back of my eyes, the amputation of part of a toe, a skin graft''and that was
before the kidney failure and heart attack that finally led to her transplant
operation. As Butterfield points out, the focus of diabetes research has been
management; her mission is to refocus onto finding cures. This is a forceful,
eloquent, engrossing, and ultimately convincing argument.
Find celebrity diabetes interesting? Visit our list of Famous Diabetics to see a long and sometimes surprising list of who has diabetes.
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