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Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy

The book depicts the emotional and moody behavior of a mom with cancer and the stresses and strains placed on a family by the mother’s diagnosis. Her moody behavior is caused in part by the medicine she must take to cure her cancer. Told through the eyes of its title character, Tabitha, who is upset her cancer-tankerous and moody Mom is in no mood to play Tabitha’s favorite game. It uses candor and comic reality as it acknowledges some of the realities faced by families living with cancer.

Price: $9.95
Copyright Date: (year) 2001
Publishing Date: October 2001- Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Pages: 32
Author: Amelia Frahm
Illustrator: Elizabeth Schultz
Audience: Juvenile
LCCN: 00-108751
ISBN: 0-9705752-0-3
Awards: 2002 Benjamin Franklin

Author Profile: In 1994, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Amelia Frahm’s children were two and four years old. Unable to find a children’s book that addressed the rollercoaster mood swings and irritable behavior she often exhibited in front of her children she wrote her own story. Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy is a version of that story and the result of research obtained from cancer support groups and other mothers with cancer.

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If you’re looking for someone who can speak with candor about the affects of cancer, Amelia Frahm can offer your listeners expert commentary and insight on what survivors, their families and people close to them go through.