How to Manage a Mammoth
A book for children and families living with Type 1 diabetes

A fun and imaginative storybook to help children understand the emotional impact of diabetes and how it can be managed.

Rose Stewart (Author)

9781009065641, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2022

20 pages
21 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm, 0.12 kg

Sometimes living with a condition like type 1 diabetes can be a mammoth task. How to Manage a Mammoth is a book for children and families living with type 1 diabetes. Join Jake, his Mum and Mel the diabetes mammoth as they join forces with their friends to become a super-team and work out how to shrink Mel to a manageable size. This fun and imaginative story helps children to understand the challenges they face living with diabetes and assists them in communicating with their carers about their feelings. Featuring a list of tasks and activities that children and parents can do to help manage the psychological challenges of living with diabetes. An ideal resource for parents and carers supporting a child with type 1 diabetes, as well as the wider diabetes healthcare team, including clinical psychologists, specialist nurses, endocrinologists and general practitioners.

1. This is me
2. This is mum
3. This is Mel
4. Me and Mum have made a plan to shrink Mel
5. We did it
6. Activities.

Subject Areas: Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction [YN], Picture books, activity books & early learning material [YB], Coping with illness & specific conditions [VFJB], Medical counselling [MQU], Clinical psychology [MMJ], Diabetes [MJGD]