Product Description

The first comprehensive first-aid handbook written for children about what you can do and when to get help. Ages nine and upwards.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #879206 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From School Library Journal
Grades 4-6--This clever guide gives children lots of information about how to respond to the routine bumps and splinters, and the more serious situations like burns and choking with directions on how to do the Heimlich maneuver. (Better yet, says the author, take a first-aid course.) Each section describes a situation and tells what to do, what to expect, and when and whom to call for help. There are directions on how to put together a first-aid kit and experiments to do. Tricks of the trade explain how to stop bleeding and how to make a butterfly bandage. Precautions about avoiding injuries include how to deal with a strange dog. Throughout, readers are cautioned against attempting to do more than they can. The text is casual, with jokes and puns, but accurate and to the point, often in the form of a list. While funny, the black-and-white cartoons are only occasionally helpful. Alvin and Virginia Silverstein's Bites and Stings (Watts, 2001) covers first aid along with a lot of information about the animals and insects.
Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NY
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Karen Buhler Gale RN