A Lesson for Every Child: Learning About Food Allergies

by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, Sally Huss

Overview

Learning was everything to Mrs. Emerson. So when a new student was brought into her classroom, Mrs. Emerson was delighted because she discovered that this young man knew something that everyone needed to know. She told her class that Jack was just like everyone else, except for one thing - he had food allergies. "Would you like to explain that to us, Jack?" Jack proceeds to educate us all. This book is endorsed by Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Connection Team (FAACT), MedicAlert(R) Foundation, Elijah Alavi Foundation, The Love for Giovanni Foundation, No Nut Traveler, and Food Allergy Zone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945742583
Publisher:	Sally Huss Inc.
Publication date:	03/11/2020
Pages:	42
Sales rank:	965,640
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

      Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, founder and CEO of the Best Ever You Network, understands firsthand the challenges that life can bring and has worked with thousands of people worldwide to illuminate their light within and help them live their best life. She has a degree in communications and broadcasting; is a life coach, food-allergy expert, and anaphylaxis survivor; and is the host of The Best Ever You Show. Elizabeth and her husband and four sons live in Maine. Visit her websites: www.BestEverYou.com and www.PercolateBook.com.

Editorial Reviews

07/08/2024

When new student Jack arrives at his first day of elementary school, his conscientious teacher, Mrs. Emerson, is delighted to discover he is an expert on a very important topic: food allergies. “Jack here is going to be our teacher,” she declares, gently encouraging a somewhat reluctant Jack to open up to his classmates about what it’s like living with allergies that can have devastating consequences. “Food allergies are very scary,” Jack warns his class, telling them that when he eats something that he shouldn’t “my face can puff up and turn red” and “I may not be able to breathe, and even worse.”

That warning inspires a barrage of questions from Jack’s classmates, a Q&A approach that Huss and Hamilton-Guarino wisely leverage to drive home critical information to younger readers in this informative debut, which blends important health facts with everyday storytelling and scenes. Beaming from his new friends’ interest, Jack schools them on all the crucial points of food allergies, from emergency treatment to the types of snacks he has to avoid, and the authors give special consideration to the sacrifices Jack has to make that often leave him feeling less than and different from others: “Many kids don’t understand and make fun of me” he explains, conveying his allergies as “not fun and a joke, but it is something I have to do.”

The kids rally around Jack, of course, with a little help from the astute Mrs. Emerson, who uses Jack’s “tremendous self-discipline” as a classic learning example, vowing that “anyone who has that can do anything!” The authors’ bright, bubbly graphics—many of which depict Jack’s schoolmates in various stages of awe at his considerable knowledge—lend a somewhat scary subject a sunny edge that adult readers will appreciate. The book closes with additional learning resources and an entertaining rhyme to help kids embrace food allergies.

Takeaway: Young boy shares the reality of living with food allergies.

Comparable Titles: Katie Kinsella’s I Can’t Have That, I Have Allergies, Stephanie Sorkin’s Nutley the Nut-Free Squirrel.

Production grades Cover: B+ Design and typography: A Illustrations: A- Editing: A- Marketing copy: B+

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