…About Cancer: Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy.

Our cancer education school program integrates cancer awareness and character education. Children read Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer Tankerous Mommy and discuss how Tabitha’s family used character traits like kindness, caring, and perseverance to cope with the stresses and strains caused by her Mommy’s cancer diagnosis.   

Despite the serious topic, children will have fun as they do enrichment activities inspired by the characters in the book, such as creating a ribbon of courage, making up their own silly-song, and a relay race to clean up Tabitha and Jordan’s kitchen mess.

The program may be adapted to fit the needs of health care educators and other groups or organizations interested in promoting cancer awareness. Teachers’ workshops and author presentations are also available upon request.

The Crack Open A Book school program includes: The book, a PowerPoint presentation, and lesson guide. The PowerPoint and lesson guide are available to any school or health care educator free of charge with the purchase of Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy.

Educators in the state of Florida may obtain the school program by going to the Florida Department of Education’s Lending Library.  It’s located in the Coordinated School Health section at  http://doehealthlibraries.cites.fsu.edu/’s  (yellow apple)  under title: Crack Open A Book or  author:  Frahm, Amelia.

For information on purchasing or to obtain the program if you have already purchased the book, e-mail us at:  info@nutcrackerpublishing.com or call us at 919-924-2058.

The entire program, including the book, is available at no cost to nonprofits who list it in their resource library.

The lesson guide curriculum is broken into six segments.  The sixth is an optional author presentation.   Author presentations vary according to age and faculty goal, but generally include an author reading, video presentation, and an appearance by Tickles Tabitha. Contact Amelia Frahm for fee information at 919-924-2058 or Amelia@nutcrackerpublishing.com

Nutcracker Publishing will donate one copy of Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy to the school as well as 10% of all sales generated by the book. This amount will be made as a donation back to the school’s sponsoring classroom, media center, or parent/teacher organization.

We would appreciate it if book sales are made prior to the visit so as to allow time for personalization and autographing. A master copy of the order form will be provided.

The Tickles Tabitha Character is available to appear at any community, corporate, or healthcare event upon request.