Books

Lyme Disease Is No Fun: Let’s Get Well! written by Mary Wall MS Ed, CCLS, a Columbia graduate student, edited by Colleen M. Smith, a medical journal production editor and Johns Hopkins grad. Both Wall and Smith battled Lyme disease as children. Author Amy Tan has written the back cover note. For parents of older latency and middle school children, the book talks in kid's language about what it is like to live with the illness.

Lyme Disease Is No Fun: Let’s Get Well!
is available from Lyme Disease Association at:
http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/Books.html

 

We Don't Sit in the Grass Anymore, by Diane Wilcox, PhD, is a true story told from a young child’s perspective. It clearly shows how a child's life is turned upside down when her mother becomes seriously ill. The author, an educational psychologist, uses a picture book format to teach children about the stages of the disease.

We Don't Sit in the Grass Anymore is available at Lulu Marketplace at: http://www.lulu.com/content/666131

 

Lyme in Rhyme, written by Geri Rodda, RN, a nurse working at the New Milford, CT, health department, is a colorfully illustrated, 32-page book for children. Children will learn tick facts and how to avoid catching Lyme disease by hearing or reading the rhyming story. The book treats this scary subject gently, but doesn’t cheat on giving important information on how to prevent and detect Lyme disease. The book has been praised by C. Ben Beard, the chief of vector borne disease at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Michael Crespan, Director of Health, New Milford, CT. Softcover only.

Lyme in Rhyme is available for $7.95 at Baileywicks Books, 50 Bank St. in New Milford, and online at:
http://www.pumpkinhillproductions.com/lyme_in_rhyme