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Description: This is a children’s book that teaches basic skills of diabetes management and empowers children to take part in their diabetes care. This is the first book in a series that educate about various issues related to living with Type 1 Diabetes. Being diagnosed with diabetes is life changing and there are many challenges that come with this diagnosis. Danny has been created to help give new perspective to those challenges so children can meet them with strength and perseverance. 15% of the proceeds from this book are donated to the JDRF.

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Description: Eddie the kitten isn’t feeling well. His mother takes him to see Dr. Whiskers, who diagnoses type 1 diabetes. Doc Whiskers explains to Eddie what is happening inside his body. He tells Eddie and his parents how to manage his diabetes. Eddie leaves Dr. Whiskers’ office triumphantly, determined to do everything he can to stay healthy and happy.

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Description: Kelvin is a boy who loves all things “Superhero”. He spends his playtime fighting off villains and other imaginary threats–always saving the day, of course. One day his fantasy world is interrupted by the reality of getting diabetes…the incessant finger pricks, shots, and the constant doctor’s appointments. A specialist doctor uncovers that Kelvin has superpowers. He takes a superhero oath as ‘Super K’, and the story reveals itself as the genesis of a new type of superhero–one who uses his superpowers to help kids with diabetes. This book empowers kids to find their own superpowers in the face of adversity.

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Description: This story is about James, an eight year old boy whose life is disrupted by diabetes. The story follows his journey through the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and challenges. It also shows how James, and his friends come to realize that he is still the same kid and friend he used to be&before diabetes.

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Description: Friendly pictures with lots of color are used to tell the story of Lara, a little girl with diabetes. Lara tells all the things she does that regular kids do — run, swim, dance — and she talks about her insulin pump and doing blood tests. If you have a young child with diabetes, Lara’s story will help them understand that they’re not the only kid in the world with diabetes.

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Description: In this story you will read about a girl named Megan who struggles with Diabetes. Sadly Megan gets picked on and bullied at school by her schoolmates and peers. Megan goes through painful experiences that children with diabetes all over the world face. Megan’s entire life changes in one day when she gets a Diabetic Alert Dog named Lexi. Diabetic Alert dogs are trained to alert their owner when their blood sugars are at dangerous levels (high and low).

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Description: A simply outrageous book for grandmothers and children of all ages. Page after beautiful page filled with the adventures of a special grandmother and her young granddaughter.

A book born of a grandmother’s love for her 4 year old granddaughter diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Barbara Ewing decided to perform an “outrageous act” and as a first time author, wrote and dedicated this book to her granddaughter. Barbara is donating all profits from this book to JDRF.

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Description: This wonderful book pinpoints 100 picture books every young child should hear to help develop pre-literacy skills. It provides both a child-friendly healthful recipe AND an age-appropriate, eco-friendly craft project for each story suggestion. It also offers true-life scenarios and crucial tips to help every parent build self-esteem and strengthen the parent-child connection. Through the activities in this book parents learn how to applyPositive Parental Participation whether they are reading, crafting, cooking or doing ANYTHING with their child.

The author is donating 20% of the proceeds from each copy of Show Me How purchased through the JDRF website to JDRF.

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Description: This is a workbook designed for teens diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and their parents. Living with Type 1 diabetes is difficult enough for adults, but for teenagers it adds to the already increased stress of social pressures, self-awareness, and responsibility. This workbook can help the whole family better understand basic diabetes information and important facts associated with good diabetes care. It also provides evidence based cognitive-behavioral strategies that can be helpful in facilitating health behavior changes, such as when problems arise with treatment adherence.

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Description: Type 1 diabetes might be part of some teens lives, but it doesn t have to run their lives. Type 1 Teen gives teens a slew of strategies and tips to manage their day-to-day lives with Type 1 diabetes. This book gives teens honest and straightforward facts and advice on issues including dealing with family and friends; navigating school and future plans; relationships and sex; and alcohol and drugs. This primer on the basics of life with Type 1 empowers teens to be their own best advocates and helps them acquire the psychological and social tools to prevent diabetes burnout and prepare for a long, healthy life.

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Description: 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life puts the “power of truth” directly into patients’ hands, dispelling the 50 most common myths that tend to rule their lives, such as: “You have to be fat to get diabetes,” “Eating too many sweets causes diabetes,” “Insulin shots are painful,” and “Type 2 diabetes is not as serious as Type 1.” With recommendations from top experts and engaging patient stories, 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life explains the crucial information everyone managing this chronic illness needs to know to live a long, healthy life with diabetes.

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Description: Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby, is a down-to-earth guide for diabetic mothers-to-be. Author Cheryl Alkon has lived with type 1 diabetes for 31 years and brings a wealth of understanding to the subject. Unlike existing books written in dry scientific language, this one focuses on firsthand accounts by diabetic women sharing their pregnancy-related experiences. Topics include what is diabetes, finding the right doctor, strategies to successfully conceive, the first, second, and third trimesters, labor and delivery, balancing the woman’s health needs with those of her child, infertility and pregnancy loss, resources, and more.

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Description: It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America’s most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment – starvation – whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases – a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition and fistfights. In a race against time and a ravaging disease, Elizabeth becomes one of the first diabetics to receive insulin injections – all while its discoverers and a little known pharmaceutical company struggle to make it available to the rest of the world. Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it’s never been told before. An annual donation is made to JDRF from book sales.

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Description: Diabulimia is an eating disorder in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need, for the purpose of weight loss. “Eating to Lose” is one woman’s memoir of her journey from illness to recovery, and carves a pathway of hope and empowerment for the millions who continue to suffer with diabulimia. “Eating to Lose” is written for them, and perhaps even more importantly it is written for their parents, and all parents in fact, who may unknowingly and involuntarily contribute to the stereotype of distorted body image so damaging to a woman’s self-esteem. “Eating to Lose” is a book about hope, about possibility, about transformation and renewal. It is the first book to address the toxic marriage of both diabetes and eating disorders. Written with gritty honesty “Eating to Lose” offers a firsthand account of true healing and provides hope both for individuals with diabulimia and their families.

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Description: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes provides advice, tips, and research from a diverse community of women living with diabetes. It provides practical insight and references for the optimal management of diabetes from women living with the disease as well as doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and educators. The personal anecdotes throughout the book reveal the good and the bad of living with diabetes, including the frustration, sense of shame, sense of isolation as well as the capacity for strength and the opportunity for growth. The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes lets you know that you are not alone but rather will make you feel like you are sitting in your favorite coffee shop with your friends who share the same disease.

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Description: In Tales in the Insulin Vial, the author describes situations and adventures experienced during his life with diabetes. There is an underlying warrior mentality in the book. The fight for life with diabetes is apparent in many of the stories, “Bully Boy, Warriors, Exceptional Day, Voyageur, Steel Legs and Kidney Transplantation”. All the stories describe events that challenge the diabetic’s will and character to overcome his/her personal enemy and succeed in life. The stories hold nothing back, as diabetic reactions, blindness, dialysis, kidney transplantation, amputation and a failed pancreas transplant are discussed within the stories from a patient’s personal perspective. These tales take you from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood and show the challenges the diabetic condition presents and how those challenges were met.

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Description: Over 23 million American live with diabetes, and many will experience serious complications like blindness, kidney damage, and cardiovascular disease. Knowing how to control blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipids is essential. What Nurses Know . . . Diabetes offers timely advice on living with diabetes from a trusted source: nurses. Simply organized and cleanly written, What Nurses Know . . . Diabetes provides individuals and their families, friends, and health care practitioners with the information they want and need. Special features include numerous sidebars and call out boxes with “Nurses Notes,” definitions of common terms, resources, online tools, websites to help those with living with diabetes, and lists of support groups.

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Description: As a parent of a child diagnosed with diabetes, you are faced with overwhelming, and sometimes frightening, questions like: Will my child be able to eat sweets again? How will I ever be able to let them go out on their own? What is the newest technology and how can it help my child? Is a cure really on the horizon? The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps you cope with the challenges of helping your children live happy, healthy lives while controlling the disease. This reassuring, easy-to-use guide features advice on:

• Adjusting to life with diabetes
• Helping your children take control of their health
• Monitoring diet and insulin levels
• Handling emergencies
• Finding support for you and your children

The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes helps parents deal with the challenges you and your child face when living with diabetes–one day at a time.

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Description: Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years. With inspired, well-crafted prose, she drills down to the most heartfelt, yet universal truths about lifeincluding the lives of those with diabetes. She unflinchingly chronicles her struggle with diabetes, as well as her successful rehabilitation from alcohol dependence, all while deriving gratification from her roles as an actress, mother, businesswoman, campaigner, and fund-raiser. Her revealing tales of both her successes and failures in coping with diabetes offer others with the disease guidance and inspiration through example.

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Description: Part memoir, part sports adventure, Not Dead Yet tells the inspirational story of Phil Southerland’s battle with Type 1 diabetes and how from diagnosis to sheer determination, Phil Southerland beat all odds and turned his diagnosis and his passion for cycling into a platform. From leading a Race Across America to now managing a world-class cycling program, his journey on and off the bike is changing the way the world views diabetes.

Not Dead Yet is Phil’s powerful story: his account of his relationship with his mother, and how she struggled to keep him alive; growing up quickly in the New-Old South of the 1990s, learning at the tender age of 6 years old how to check his glucose and give himself injections; of how he fulfilled his dream of becoming a professional athlete using his team and the bike as a platform, inspiring thousands of individuals and families around the world who are battling diabetes to not just chase, but catch, their dreams.

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Description: The ABCs of Loving Yourself with Diabetes can help anyone with diabetes treat themselves more lovingly, with patience and forgiveness, and reawaken what they love-all of which can create better diabetes management. Within these pages you’ll learn “how-to” overcome fears, frustrations, guilt and loss and “rev up” your joy, courage and even pride. Riva Greenberg brings you the inspiration and practical insights she’s gleaned from thirty-five years of living with diabetes and her work as a motivational speaker and coach. These delightful drawings and powerful messages of strength and hope can guide you to create a happier, healthier life with diabetes. An annual donation is made to JDRF from book sales.