Customer Reviews

A Magic Ride in Foozbah-Land: An Inside Look at Diabetes

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This book explains and explores diabetes in general terminology which will be helpful to recently diagnosed children and their parents. My 4-year old son has diabetes and I wish I would have purchased it when he was first diagnosed.

This book has helped me to answer many questions that my four-year-old daughter has had since being diagnosed with diabetes. It has excellent illustrations and cleverly explains what diabetes is and why our bodies need insulin.

My son is five and he really enjoys this book. This is the book he choose for me to read to his class last spring to explain his diabetes to them. We regularly talk about insulin keys and unlocking the carbs now. I really think this book helped him "get it". He doesn't like having diabetes but it helps all of us that he understands why he has to have the shots. It reminds me quite a lot of The Magic School Bus books.

This book is written in painfully poor verse. My boy, who was 5 or so when we got the book, liked it, though, so it's not all bad. But if you can't bear uneven meter and forced, stretched, and mauled rhymes, you may want to pass on this and find something crafted with more skill.