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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.
Media Information
If you’re looking for someone who can speak with candor about the affects of cancer, Amelia Frahm can offer your listeners humorous and sometimes embarrassingly shameful observations and insight on what survivors, their families and people close to them go through.
She can provide expert commentary, background and story ideas on:
- The topic of cancer and how it affects family member from toddlers to teenagers.
- Articles, columns, tip sheets, or other short items.
- A list of other experts and contact information on the topic of cancer/publishing.
- Special events and fundraising ideas such as Nutcracker Publishing’s Ugly Bunny Pageant.
- Artistic and unusual Christmas Nutcrackers which inspired the Nutcracker Publishing Company’s name.
- FYI-Frahm’s first professional job was at a nuclear power plant and she’s working on her next project – a children’s book about nuclear power.
Press Releases / Articles / Reviews
Ugly Bunny Pageant Flyer
April 9, 2006
Children feel the effects of treatment
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
October 14, 2004
Dick Youngblood: Tickled over book’s success
Minneapolis Star Tribune
July 27, 2002
Who Needs Chocolate? Ten Thousand Dollars is Sweet Enough
PRWeb
February 17, 2002
Anthrax Targets Author – Her Book Survives
PRWeb
November 4, 2001
The Power of Choice
Barr Laboratories Annual Report 2001
Books For Children
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Family Reading List – Picture Books
Hurricane Voices
Tickles Tabitha’s Cancer-tankerous Mommy
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