num_pages: 32
description: Ben Franklin Award Recipient, Tickles Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy , was released October 2001, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That same month Rosie O Donnell showed it to a national audience on the popular Rosie O Donnell Show . Approved by the National Oncology Nursing Society. The book captured the attention of Barr Laboratories Inc. , manufacture of the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen even before its October 2001 publication date. The book, its author and her children were featured in Barr's 2001 annual report. Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy  has been recommended by literary, medical, and entertainment critics across the country and the release of this book helped pioneer cancer resources for families coping with cancer. Tickles Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy was written, published and marketed by a cancer survivor who identified intimately with her audience -other survivors- and understood their need for an honest, and reality based children's book about surviving cancer.The Nutcracker Publishing Company was established in 2000 in honor of Laura Bouldin Karlman, a young mother who died of Leukemia. Tickles Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy was its first title.Early on the company recognized a need for children's books that would help adults explain sensitive and sometimes unpopular topics to children. Crack Open a Book!
language: English
title: Tickles Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy
titlecomplete: Tickles Tabitha's Cancer-tankerous Mommy
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Nutcracker Publishing