Jon's Tricky Journey: A Story for Inuit Children with Cancer and Their Families

Jon loves his life in the North. But when he feels a pain that won't go away, he must go to a children's hospital in the south to find out what is wrong. A doctor there tells Jon he has cancer and will have to stay at the hospital for a while.
Suddenly Jon's life is upside down But with a handful of tricks from the doctors and nurses, and new friends, Jon discovers ways to cope with some of the tricky parts of having cancer.
Accompanied by a resource guide for parents and caregivers, including hospital and support information, Jon's Tricky Journey opens a conversation between Inuit children facing a cancer diagnosis and their families to help make a difficult and confusing time more manageable.

ISBN-13: 9781772271454

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Inhabit Media

Publication Date: 06-09-2017

Pages: 70

Product Dimensions: 8.40h x 8.30w x 0.20d

Age Range: 6 - 8 Years

Patricia McCarthy is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with over thirty years of cancer nursing experience. Jon's Tricky Journey is her first book.Hwei Lim draws comics (the Boris & Lalage series; Spera: Volume 1; and Mirror, with Emma Rios) and illustrates books (The Spirit of the Sea, Animals Illustrated: Narwhal, and Dragonhearted). Hwei lives in Malaysia.