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Nancy Fox - Hide and Seek, No Ticks Please, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Hide and Seek, No Ticks Please

No Ticks, Please

Av Nancy Fox

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Hide-and-Seek: No Ticks, Please is a story about Jose´ and Alex’s adventures in the bushes, tall grasses, and wooded areas.  During their exploration, they find hidden treasures and hidden dangers. Alex learns about Jose´’s discovery of a hidden danger and how it will change their adventures. She also learns steps to keep them both safe. • Of the estimated 20 million 7- to 11-year old children in the United States (2000-2010 census), 60,000 have confirmed cases of Lyme disease (cdc.gov). The CDC estimates the incidence rate is 20 times that number due to several factors. • The incidence of Lyme disease is reported in nearly every state of the United States with significant reports in 13 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. • Educating children about prevention strategies against ticks will save families costly devastating effects:  financial—diagnosis and treatment can be a significant cost; physical—misdiagnosis leads to severe health complications including heart and neurological symptoms; social/emotional—being misunderstood as the symptoms may be not visible to others; educational—learning disabilities may occur with Lyme disease affecting the brain and overall health of individuals. • Hide-and-Seek: No Ticks, Please is a story to help parents, educators, and medical personnel discuss the risks of ticks, how ticks transmit bacteria, steps to prevent contact with ticks, and how to remove a tick properly if it does become attached.
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Dr. Nancy Fox is a Lyme disease survivor who enjoys the outdoors. She received a doctorate degree at Wilmington University in Innovation and Leadership: Curriculum and Instruction. She has taught pre-K through twelfth grades for twenty years and has been a radio guest on “Everyday Wisdom for Families,” “The Ed Tyll Show,” WCTR, WNAV, and Total Education Network. She is a frequent speaker at schools and for several Lyme disease support groups.

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""A slim guide that aims to equip children with important information about ticks. Alex wants to play with her friend Jose´, but Jose´ is too sick. Her mother explains that Jose´ was bitten by a tick, which gave him a disease that made him tired and weak. Alex’s mother pulls out a book called No Ticks Please to explain where ticks hide, how they transmit diseases and how people can avoid them. The book explains that ticks are often found in “woods, bushes, and tall grasses,” and repeats the phrase often to drive the point home for a young audience. Alex also learns that the remarkably tiny ticks hide in warm, moist spaces and seek out the warm bodies of animals, where they live and drink blood: “The warm body can be a mouse, a chipmunk, or other creatures full of mischief and spunk.” The book-within-a-book is written in an awkward meter, with unnecessary rhymes, but it carries an important message: Yes, you can still go on adventures, but you need to be careful. Fox (No Ticks Please, 2011, etc.) manages to explain something that could potentially alarm children—tiny, vampire-like bugs that carry a debilitating disease—in a straightforward, nonfrightening way. She makes it clear how serious Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are, but also shows Jose´ visiting the doctor, getting better and going back outside to play again. Seven pages of plain-language tips for avoiding ticks and removing them follow the story, with illustrations of campsites, constructions sites, woodpiles and other tick hangouts that will, hopefully, stick with kids. The book is fully illustrated in color, although the humans come off looking a bit stiff. That said, Seward’s illustrations are realistic enough that kids will be able to recognize hard-to-spot ticks if they happen to see one. A useful guide to avoiding a dangerous bug."" -Kirkus Reviews ""Dr. Fox's clear, straightforward writing makes Hide-and-Seek:  No Ticks, Please an easy-to-use instructional resource.  This information-rich book is an ideal resource for health-related research projects at the elementary level."" -Kimberly Dyar, Nationally Board Certified Teacher, M. Ed., Media Specialist

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