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The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide

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The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide
Review By Eileen

Kids newly diagnosed with Celiac Disease are often overwhelmed. They are confused about what foods to eat or not to eat, and their entire lifestyle changes dramatically. With The GF Kid, information is presented in a fun and friendly format that keeps its young readers engrossed as they read about this condition. This book explains what celiac disease is, what to say when you're at a restaurant, and tips for finding gluten-free foods at a store, along with the key rules of celiac, like not to eat anything that you don't know is okay. The GF Kid is helpful to adults, too: it shows lists of companies that often have gluten free foods along with their website and phone number, and lists of GF candy and ingredients (and non-GF candy and ingredients). Kids can really relate to this book because another kid wrote it, and its fun illustrations bring the whole story to life. I wish I had this book when I was just diagnosed. It would have been an extremely helpful guide for me.

The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide
Review By Anna Spreitzer

Celiac Disease can be hard to understand, especially for kids. The GF Kid helps kids understand the disease and some interesting facts about it. I think that there are some parts in there that give facts that few adults with celiac disease would even know. Kids can fully relate to this book because it is given from a child's point of view, and has fun illustrations. Many kids have a hard time understanding what we celiacs can or cannot have. The GF Kid refers to many GF foods and points out commonly mistaken things. It covers everything briefly but completely, and is easy to understand, from friends to siblings, to who discovered it, to how it may have come to be, eating at fast food to eating at fancy restaurants, to what it does to how to deal with it, and much more. The book is practically written in kid language. This is an excellent book, filled with fun cartoons, great illustrations, and wacky writing. Any kid would thoroughly enjoy such a great book. This book is also great for helping kids that don't have celiac disease but have friends that do fully understand what the problem with their friend is. Furthermore, its just fun to read, even if you don't know anyone with the disease. Who knows, maybe your dad will be diagnosed with celiac disease in two days! Best be prepared!!!

The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide
Review By Laura Spreitzer

For most children, celiac disease is hard to manage. Pretend you are a little kid going to lunch and everybody else has pizza, pasta and such, while you just have a PB and J sandwich on crumbly gf bread. Or just imagine going to get ice cream cones with your brownie troop and mistakenly thinking that any old vanilla soft serve was okay as long as it was in a cup and not a cone like the rest of the kids. Wouldn't you feel left out? The GF Kid helps children cope with staying gluten free and having celiac disease. I already knew a lot of foods and candies that are gluten free, but I didn't know things like Baby Ruths and Butterfingers candybars are GF too. Mom's been holding out on me! The GF Kid explains lots of things that kids don't normally understand by putting it into "Kid Language". I'm glad Mom got this book. Thank you Paris!

When my daughter was diagnosed with Celiac Disease 6 years ago it truly took me over a year to figure out how to live with her new dietary needs. The GF Kid explains,in a clear and concise way, EVERYTHING you need to know. From specific foods to an easy medical explanation, Paris delivers her message in an upbeat, positive manner. I give a copy of this book to all my daughters teachers in the beginning of the year and I also read it to her class to explain why she eats differently than her classmates. Everyone "gets it" after reading this book. Both the writing and the illustrations are fantastic! Anyone who knows someone with Celiac Disease should purchase this book!

This book really relates to kids with celiac disease. It breaks it down and spells it out in terms they can relate to. My twin grandsons were diagnosed and this not only helped them, but all the adults, understand the new lifestyle they were embarking on. Thanks to the author and her parents for all the great information.

My nine-year-old neice has celiac disease. I borrowed the book from the library first, and then bought it when I found it so informative for adults, and so much fun for kids. It is presented in quasi-comic book format, with a young teen girl narrating about what it's like to have celiac disease. Mostly she explains what she can and can't eat, and how she handles eating at her friends' houses, eating out, and not being "different" when she's different. I figured Jessie knew all these things, but the book would be a good vehicle for her to explain to her friends in a very easily explained way, about why she eats a little differently than they do.

I copied several pages of information for my own reference before giving it to her. The narrating character lists many natural foods she can eat, and many commercial foods she can eat. There are also pages of websites for more information, and sources for gluten free products. I would consider this a must-buy for a gluten free kid. Thank you to author Melissa London, this was a brilliant book, delivering exactly what we needed.

My 9year old son found this book brillant he could really associate with it and found it very informative and funny.

I was surprised reading over the reviews to find one that said this was not a worthwhile book. I think it is great. I bought it for my daughter a few years ago when it first came out. I used it when I gave a gf homeschool cooking class for her friends to introduce them to what gf foods were. I also found it helpful to have some adults read so they, too, get the full picture of just what we can and can not eat. My niece was just recently diagnosed and I here to order another copy for her and also to help explain what eating gf is like to her younger brother.

The GF Kid: A Celiac Disease Survival Guide is our favorite reference book for Celiac Disease. We have two children with Celiac Disease. My eight year old was diagnosed right before she started second grade. I sent the book in to school and her teacher read it to the class so that the teacher and students could better understand my daughter's condition and what she can and cannot eat. (Her third grade teacher is currently reading it as well).

It's a quick read - the only book my husband has read about Celiac - and it's very informative. I am purchasing my second copy so that I always have a spare. I plan to send this book to my newly diagnosed daughter's daycare.

I also send the book along when my daughter visits a new friend's house so that the parents can understand her condition and what she can and cannot eat. There are great drawings and examples of wonderful GF lunches and snacks.

I highly recommend this book to any parent with children with Celiac.

This book is an easy to read, amusing, positive, informative book to help all those with Celiac and their family and friends understand the dietary lifestyle needed to manage Celiac. It was a great guide for my daughter to take to her college dorm to help her roommates and new friends understand her diet and condition. The illustrations are very amusing. I would also recommend this book for teachers or school counselors to help them and other students easily understand the basics of managing Celiac Disease.

I checked out this book and "Eating Gluten-Free with Emily" at the library, looking for a book to help reinforce to my daughter what she can/cannot eat now that we know we're very gluten sensitive; my daughter is 6, but relates more like an 8 year old. I was also hoping to find something to share with her class and with her friends' parents so well meaning adults quit telling her that "a little bit is okay".

My daughter far preferred this book, "The GF Kid", to "Eating with Emily". This book if fun, a bit irreverent, and very informative. It's actually a good first book for anyone getting started with a gluten free diet as it has detailed lists of foods and ingredients found on labels that are and are not safe, and examples that make it clear that you shouldn't make assumptions about similar products (e.g. Dark Milky Ways are GF, regular are not). The book is understandable by a curious kid, but written at a level to still be cool for teenagers as well and to help them understand how to navigate their social world while remaining gluten free.

If you're looking for a book to make a young child feel better about being GF (preschool to perhaps 1st grade) but aren't looking for as much "how to" information, then I'd start with "Eating Gluten-Free with Emily".

This was a bit old for my 4.5 year old however she has the reading comprehension of a 6/7 year old. This book is an excellent product and we enjoyed it. It would be ideal for a 8-13 year olds. Great addition to our Celiac library.