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Picture books about Health from the Little Parachutes reviews library

This collection contains picture books about health. Some encourage children to get plenty of exercise and to make healthy eating choices. Other books feature illnesses, disabilities and other conditions.

Allergies

Picture books about allergies, including hay fever and various types of food allergies

Bedwetting

Books about bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) which seek to reassure and inform children that are affected by this.

Common Childhood Illnesses

Books featuring common childhood illnesses and conditions such as chicken pox, asthma and ear infections. Some great choices for children who at home in bed recovering from an illness.

Dentists & Dental Care

Books about visiting the dentist and dental care. Some titles promote good dental care including brushing teeth, others give information about some of the common procedures carried out in the dentist’s surgery.

Disabilities

A positive collection of picture books that are either about disability, or feature people with disabilities.

Doctors, Hospitals & Operations

Books about a visit to the doctor, a hospital stay or having an operation. These picture books aim to reassure children who are frightened by the prospect of medical procedures.

Healthy Eating & Exercise

Books to encourage children to eat healthily, develop good eating habits, try new foods, and take plenty of exercise.

Infectious Diseases

Children's picture books that help children learn what they need to know about infectious diseases like Coronavirus (Covid-19).

Wearing Glasses / Eye patch

Picture books about wearing glasses, and what to expect when you visit an optician.

Little Princess – I Don’t Want to Go to Hospital

Provides a positive and reassuring view of hospitals.

My Grampy Can’t Walk

A positive book which sends out the message that a person's disabilities need not define them. It would be a good choice for a child who has a family member in a wheelchair.

Who’s Poorly Too?

Maisy, Charley and the Wobbly Tooth

Promoting a positive view of dentists and good dental care. Helping children to understand that it's normal for baby teeth to wobble and fall out.

Freddy Meets Bones: The Pirate Who Was Allergic to Fish

This is a gentle and informative picture book for young children about severe food allergy and anaphylaxis.

Oliver’s Fruit Salad

May encourage a child to make healthier eating choices and try new foods.

What Can Rabbit See?

The book gives a positive view of wearing glasses.

Too Pickly!

Fussy eaters may be able to identify with the boy in the story, which may provide an opportunity for a discussion on eating habits. There is space in the back of the book to write in a child's favourite foods.

Ready, Steady, Grow!

Describing to the very young positive things they can do to help their bodies grow strong and healthy. May also reassure a child eager to 'be grown up' that each day, little by little, they are moving towards this. Personal safety issues, healthy eating and good hygiene are also touched upon.

My Brother is Different

Grow Organic Eat Organic

This factual picture book provides children with lots of information on growing and eating organic produce.

Lucy’s Picture

Read at Home: First Experiences: At the Optician

Useful for preparing children for their first visit to the optician.

Do Little Mermaids Wet Their Beds?

Anxiety and stress can sometimes be a contributing factor to bedwetting. This book gently explains that when children stop worrying, the problem can sometimes resolve itself.

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

May encourage a child to adopt good table manners and try new foods, particularly those children who are mad about dinosaurs!

A Dr. Spot Casebook: Zak Has ADHD

A good resource to teach children and their families about ADHD

My Friend With Autism

The Black Book of Colours

A child with a blind friend or relative may find this a useful tool to help understand how visually impaired people 'see' without their eyes.

Rachel Has Eczema

Informing young children about eczema and how it is commonly treated. Acknowledging the emotional and physical distress some children with skin conditions may experience and providing a positive outcome at the end of the story.

Going to the Doctor

Introducing young children to common medical procedures which they may experience during a visit to the doctor, including immunisations.

Don’t You Feel Well, Sam?

Encouraging children to take medicine (the bear in the story is very reluctant to take his at first, but his mother's love and patience wins through in the end).

Dinosaur Diner

This book reinforces the message that a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle can lead to obesity and lack of energy.

Best Friends: A Pop-up Book

Snug!

A comforting board book that includes illustrations of a child wearing glasses and a wheel-chair user.

Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog

A witty cautionary tale which may help children to make the link between a sedentary lifestyle/poor eating habits and obesity. This may even encourage them to switch the TV or the games console off and go and so something more active!