Books
Thoughtfully created resources for children and the people who care for them. Whether you're preparing for a healthcare experience, exploring a new topic, or simply encouraging meaningful conversations, these books are designed to make learning engaging, comforting, and empowering.
Teddy Bear Clinic
A Child's Guide to Medical Experiences
Teddy Bear Clinic: A Child's Guide to Medical Experiences is an interactive preparation resource designed to help children become more familiar with common healthcare experiences through step-by-step explanations and medical play.
Children follow along with their teddy bear as they explore experiences often found at a Teddy Bear Clinic, including taking vitals, IV placement, X-rays, MRI scans, casts, and anesthesia masks. Families, caregivers, educators, and healthcare professionals can use the book to answer questions, encourage conversation, and reinforce coping strategies.
Designed to complement medical play and supportive discussions, Teddy Bear Clinic helps children build confidence, reduce fear of the unknown, and feel more informed, supported, and empowered throughout their healthcare journey.
Mariportsa's
Important Adventure
Mariportsa helps children learn about ports through gentle storytelling, play, and child-friendly language. By following Mariportsa through port placement, access, and de-access, children can learn what to expect, explore coping choices, ask questions, and feel more confident about their own medical experiences.
Perfect for families, hospitals, infusion centers, and Child Life settings, this book encourages preparation, understanding, and coping through a little imagination and a very special butterfly.
Love Stays, Always
A gentle children’s story created to help kids understand and process grief through honest, developmentally appropriate language. Love Stays, Always gives children space for the big feelings, hard questions, memories, and changes that can come after someone dies, while reminding them that the love we share continues through the ways we remember, honor, and carry someone with us.
Available in English and Spanish.
Pair the story with the Love Stays, Always Grief Workbook, a bilingual English + Spanish flip-book workbook filled with thoughtful activities to help children express feelings, explore memories, ask questions, identify support, and find meaningful ways to stay connected.
The story + workbook are designed to be used together, creating space for conversations and activities at a child’s own pace. Because grief doesn’t have to be processed all at once.
