| View Larger Image | The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide | Paperbackby Melissa London (Author), Eric Glickman (Illustrator)
| List Price: | $14.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Woodbine House | | Edition: | illustrated editionth Edition | | Page Count: | 64 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 30, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 175,626th |
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Product Description
Book Description "I'm no different than any other kid. I m just a GF kid";, says Paris, matter-of-factly. She is the spunky eleven-year-old narrator of this story for kids with celiac disease who must eat gluten-free (GF) foods. With equal parts humor and directness, Paris* gets right down to business explaining what it is like to have celiac disease. (*Paris's mom wrote the story, full of her daughter's wisecracking comments, and her dad drew the funny, cartoony illustrations.) Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects 1 in 133 kids. If you have celiac disease, you cannot tolerate gluten, a substance found in many foods, including--gulp!--cake, cookies, pasta, or pizza. Don't sweat it. Paris has creative GF solutions for you. She offers tips on what to bring to school, parties, and sleep-overs; where to shop for GF foods at stores and online; and how to choose from among plenty of foods that don't contain gluten, like bananas, yogurt, popcorn, chocolate pudding cups, hamburgers, soda, and more! Paris explains that you don t have to worry about your friends either. They'll get on board once they understand that eating even a tiny bit of gluten can make you sick, tired, or slow your growth. In THE GF KID, you'll find everything you need to know to get on with your gluten-free life, including: What celiac disease is and how you can manage it How to choose safe, gluten-free foods and what to avoid Lists of gluten-free foods (and candy!) Tips for eating away from home (restaurants, school, friends homes, the movies) Keeping your gluten-free stuff separate from gluteny stuff Favorite GF recipes If you're the parent of a preteen or young teen with celiac disease -whether your child is newly diagnosed or has been living with celiac disease for a while -you' ll want to have this friendly and empowering book for your child. It is also a great read for friends, neighbors, classmates, and teachers who want to be supportive and help your son or daughter be a GF kid. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 15 reviews)
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Entertaining and informative by Stephanie New (Hampton, VA USA)  4 Stars
August 12, 2009
My 6 year old son and I read this together. He is newly diagnosed celiac, I have been diagnosed for about 10 years. It was cute, informative and funny. Although it was really intended for a bit older readership (maybe tweens) he got a lot of the humor, especially with us reading together. And as an "experienced" Celiac, it wouldn't be very informative for me alone, it was for my son and written with humor that made us both laugh (cute illustrations). And I did get some good ideas for child menu alternatives.
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Terrific Book! by C. Clevenger (somewhere out there)  5 Stars
April 02, 2009
I was surprised reading over the reviews to find one that said this was not a worthwhile book. I think it is great. I bought it for my daughter a few years ago when it first came out. I used it when I gave a gf homeschool cooking class for her friends to introduce them to what gf foods were. I also found it helpful to have some adults read so they, too, get the full picture of just what we can and can not eat. My niece was just recently diagnosed and I here to order another copy for her and also to help explain what eating gf is like to her younger brother.
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ABSOLUTELY STUPENDOUS! by J. Armstrong (Eagle Mountain, UT) 5 Stars
February 24, 2009
My 13 year old son was just diagnosed a few weeks ago, and we have bought multiple books trying to understand it better. I wish I would have bought this book First. It does the best job explaining CD and answered all my sons questions. We find ourselves referring to it again and again.
Jewel
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The GF Kid answers loads of questions in a fun way by Shez 5 Stars
January 13, 2009
Bought this book after reading many others and it still answered some unanswered questions I had. It's a fun, quick read and I loan it to everyone in our lives so that they can easily understand what my family of newly diagnosed Celiacs is going through (my husband and 3 of our 4 kids!).
It helped the kids themselves a lot too.
Melissa London has done a wonderful service to the Celiac community with this book.
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Great book for Kids with Celiac Disease by T. Anderson (Austin, TX United States) 5 Stars
December 14, 2008
I bought this book for my 9-year old son who was recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease. He normally does not like to read unless he has to, but he read the entire book in two days and actually informed me of a few things I was not aware of, like McDonalds french fries are gluten free. It's an easy read with a lot of pictures so kids will not get bored with the book.
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