Chad the Allergic Chipmunk: A Children's Story of Nut Allergies
Chad the Allergic Chipmunkis a delightful book with a serious message. It helps adults and children alike to increase awareness and tolerance for individual differences especially when the issue can be life threatening. Nicole Smith has taken a personal experience and turned it into an opportunity to help all children with special allergies. --Rose Bergles, Principal, Academy School District 20Nicole Smith, with the able assistance of her illustrator Maggie Nichols, has zeroed in on milk allergy, peanut allergy and now tree nut allergy. The tale ofChad the Allergic Chipmunkis directed to the school aged child with food allergies and the support systems, family, friends, teachers and epinephrine kit that keep him safe. This book provides excellent reading and charming illustrations of specific situations and medically responsible approaches to a child with food allergies. --Bonnie Baswell, M.D., AllergistOnly a parent of a food-allergic child could have written a book like this. Nicole reminds the allergic child and his caregivers that we must always be vigilant yet she never lets us forget that there is a talented, interesting, special child in there as well. --Gina Clowes, Mother of Tree Nut Allergic Child