What exactly is cancer?

What happens with your body when you get cancer?
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-384-24102-3
Verlag: tredition

Buch, Englisch, 24 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 170 mm, Gewicht: 58 g

Martin sits thoughtfully in the kitchen with his aunt, who had cancer, and asks her what cancer exactly is. She then tells him the story of the “cellings” in the human body. Slowly, some cellings turn into “cancerlings,” because they are angry about the "rubbish" in the human body resulting from wrong nutrition or air pollution we breathe in. They are spreading and threatening the cellings. A fight breaks out.
Will they manage to defeat the cancerlings in the end? In her book, Marion Hartmann describes the development and treatment of cancer from inside the human body. The cells become living beings and thus identification carriers with which children can better understand the disease cancer. As a person affected, she hopes to make it easier for children to understand and for parents to talk about the disease.

Zielgruppe

The book is suitable for children who themselves or whose parents have cancer. From the age of six it is recommended to read with parents, from the age of nine children can understand the content independently.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartmann, Marion

Über Autor(innen)

Hartmann, Marion
Born in Paderborn in 1966, Marion Hartmann grew up in the countryside. After graduating from high school, she studied design in keeping with her creative inclinations and then worked as an interior designer, color designer and playground planner. Since 2010
she worked as a primary school teacher in Berlin. She began writing to process experiences with illnesses. “Hip surgery... Sepsis... Coma: Back to life after the hospital germ” was her first book, published for the first time in 2019. The children's book “What is Cancer?” followed in the same year. In 2020 she wrote the book “Tumor Talk”. During the Corona pandemic she wrote and illustrated the children's book "What is a Virus?" which describes how infection occurs and how you can successfully protect yourself. The ability to illustrate text with illustrations helps in this educational work, as do your own experiences in dealing with illnesses. She is also looking forward to tackling book projects that have nothing to do with illness. This resulted in the children's book "Line and the Dust Mice", published in 2023.