APPENDIX C: Books on Family and Illness

Appendix C offers a list of books for children, teens, and the family on how to understand and cope with devastating illnesses.

Sample Resources:

Can I Still Kiss You? Answering Children's Questions about Cancer by Neil Russell. Deerfield Beach, FL: HCI Publishers, 2001.

Always On Call: When Illness Turns Families Into Caregivers by Carole Levine. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.

The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words by Susan Halpern. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2004.

Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 2005.

Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child when a Parent Is Sick by Paula Rauch and A.C. Muriel. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

This information was last updated June 2010 and will be updated every six months. A more complete list of information and resources are available in the book Aftershock and on the Prepared Patient Forum.