Book Shop

Kids Health is the information and resource centre of The Children's Hospital at Westmead. We have a wide range of publications and fact sheets for parents, children, professionals and the community in general. Files are also kept on many aspects of child health and safety. Our services include mail/telephone/fax/email orders for publications, telephone enquiries on health and safety issues, as well as photocopy facilities that allow our resources and reference books to be used as research material. The Kids Health reference library publications are also available to borrow.

Kids Health also has a range of safety products that are available for purchase and are available at: http://kidshealth.chw.edu.au/safety-products-for-sale

All publications available in the bookshop have been reviewed by a relevant hospital staff member. The bookshop is owned and staffed by the Hospital with all money generated from book sales contributing to the care of sick kids.

Please click on the title of the book to view a detailed description and the front cover of the book.

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Please fax your order to (02) 9845 3562 or scan and email to kidsh@chw.edu.au.

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Books

Baby And Child Health
Title Price
Better Health For Our Children - A Guide For Parents $24.95
Paediatric Dentistry (4th Edition) $5.50
Parenting By Heart (2011 Edition) $35.00
Raising A Child with Arthritis $19.95
Shaking Your Baby Is Just Not The Deal $28.35
Burn Injury
Title Price
Butterflies $14.95
Sophie's Story $10.00
Disabilities
Title Price
Adolescents With Limb Differences (2nd Rev Ed 2002) - A Handbook For Adolescents And Their Families $5.50
Chelsea And Her Little Ear Make A New Friend $15.95
Children With Hand Differences (Rev Ed 2007) - A Guide for Families $5.50
Children With Limb Differences (Ages 6 - 12 Years) - Handbook for Families (Rev 3 ED) $5.50
Children With Limb Differences (Birth to 5 Years) - Handbook for Families (Rev 3 ED) $5.50
Children With Limb Differences - A Handbook For Teachers (2nd Rev Ed 2007) $5.50
Everybody Has Something $18.75
It Isn't Fair: Siblings Of Children With Disabilities $36.25
Life With A Difference: (CD) $5.50
My Fake Eye $10.95
Raindrops And Sunshine $9.95
Raising A Child Who Has A Physical Disability $22.95
Show Me What My Friends Can See $24.95
Siblings $27.50
Steps To Independence (4th Edition) $36.00
Grief
Title Price
Anna's Story $24.95
Beginnings And Endings With Lifetimes In Between $16.95
Coping With Grief $11.95
Grieving For My Baby $20.00
Leaving Early $26.95
Palliative Care For Children With Cancer - A Parent's Guide $24.95
Something I've Never Felt Before - How Teenagers Cope With Grief $16.95
Talking About Death (4th Edition) $24.95
The Empty Room $22.95
The Private Worlds Of Dying Children $32.95
The Worst Loss $22.95
What's Dead Mean? $15.95
When A Child Dies - An Information Booklet For Families $7.50
When A Family Is In Trouble $13.60
When Mom And Dad Separate $13.60
When Someone Very Special Dies $13.45
Head and Brain Injury
Title Price
Head Injury - The Facts $30.95
Moving On: Changes And Challenges (Video 2 in the series) $5.50
One Step At A Time (Video 1 in the series) $5.50
Sexuality And Acquired Brain Injury In Children And Adolescents $15.40
Shaking Your Baby Is Just Not The Deal $28.35
Helpful products for kids
Title Price
Baby Cup Feeder (Disposable) $3.00
Card Holder $11.00
Dycem Non Slip Matting $8.00
Flexi Cup Feeder $8.50
Left-Hander Kindergarten Scissors $4.00
My FIRST Ruler $9.90
Peta Mini Scissors $15.40
Self-Opening Scissors $11.00
Slope Board For Writing $64.95
The Pencil Grip $3.00
The Pencil Grip (CROSSOVER) $2.65
The Pencil Grip (JUMBO) $4.40
Hospital Publications
Title Price
125 Years Of Care $25.00
1880 - 2005, 125 years of care - The Children's Hospital at Westmead $25.00
Adolescent Health - GP Resouce Kit 2nd Edition $35.00
AGSA/ConnecTeD Personal Health Folder (Generic) $5.00
AGSA/ConnecTeD Personal Health Folder - with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Booklet $10.00
Caring For Diabetes In Childhood And Adolescents (3rd Edition 2010) (The 2nd Edition Is Available In Vietnamese @ $28.50 incl GST) $28.50
How Good It Would Be (CD) $5.00
Lachlan Goes To Hospital $4.40
Look At Me (Video) $22.00
On Call Paediatrics $74.95
Osteogenesis Imperfecta - Caring for Children And Adolescents $5.00
Paediatrics Manual - The Children's Hospital at Westmead Handbook (2nd Edition 2009) $69.95
Shaking Your Baby Is Just Not The Deal $28.35
Super Strategies For Successful Students CD (Hydrocephalus / Spina Bifida) $25.00
The Feeding Guide (6th Edition) $20.00
Treating Children With Botulinum Toxin - Clinical Practice (2006 Edition) $39.50
Weight Management Resource Package $46.40
When A Child Dies - An Information Booklet For Families $7.50
Youth Health Forum DVD's **(Forums commenced mid-2007. Please indicate your title selection when ordering) $25.00
Hospitalisation
Title Price
Going To Hospital - What Will It Be Like (An Interactive Computer Game and Activity Book) $10.00
Going To The Hospital Sticker Book $12.95
Lachlan Goes To Hospital $4.40
Little Tree $16.95
Sarah's Story $3.30
What About Me ? $15.95
When Someone Has A Very Serious Illness $13.45
Illnesses And Health Problems
Title Price
AGSA/ConnecTeD Personal Health Folder (Generic) $5.00
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia - A Parent's Guide $35.95
In The Shadow Of Illness: Parents And Siblings Of The Chronically Ill Child $39.95
Joint Hypermobility Handbook $24.95
The TOF Child $41.75
Allergy
Title Price
Allergy Safe Family Food $20.00
Choosing The Right Stuff $14.95
Gluten Free Favourites From Mary's Kitchen $19.95
Health For Life Series - Allergies (egg, nut and dairy) $9.95
Managing Your Child's Food Allergies $35.00
One Bowl Allergy Free Baking $19.95
Understanding And Managing Your Child's Food Allergies $27.50
Wheat And Gluten Free $29.95
Cancer
Title Price
Childhood Brain And Spinal Cord Tumours - A Guide For Families, Friends And Caregivers $32.95
Childhood Cancer - A Parent's Guide To Solid Tumour Cancers $32.95
Childhood Leukemia - A Guide For Families, Friends And Caregivers $32.95
Palliative Care For Children With Cancer - A Parent's Guide $24.95
What's Up With Rachel? (Medikidz Explain Brain Tumours) $14.95
What's Up With Richard ? (Medikidz Explain Leukemia) $14.95
Cerebral Palsy
Title Price
Cerebral Palsy - An Information Guide For Parents. $7.65
Children With Cerebral Palsy - A Parents Guide $35.95
Cleft Lip
Title Price
Cleft Lip & Palate - A Parent's Guide $0.00
Cystic Fibrosis
Title Price
Cystic Fibrosis - A Guide For Patient And Family (4th Edition) $60.95
Diabetes
Title Price
Calorie Fat And Carbohydrate Counter (2012 Edition) $9.00
Caring For Diabetes In Childhood And Adolescents (3rd Edition 2010) (The 2nd Edition Is Available In Vietnamese @ $28.50 incl GST) $28.50
Diabetes - Kids & Teens Food $29.95
Healthy Kids & Teens Food (Breakfasts, Light Meals, Snacks, Treats and Party Food) $12.95
Healthy Kids & Teens Food (Lunches, Family Dinners, Desserts) $12.95
Living With Diabetes And Coeliac Disease $7.15
Pumping Insulin $45.00
The Traffic Light Guide To Food Carbohydrate Counter (2009) $15.95
Epilepsy
Title Price
And Down Went Poss $15.00
Seizures And Epilepsy In Childhood: A Guide For Parents $46.95
What's Up With Wendy ? (Medikidz Explain Epilepsy) $14.95
Gastrointestinal
Title Price
Living With Diabetes And Coeliac Disease $7.15
Swallowsafe (DVD) $30.00
Swallowsafe (VIDEO) $55.00
This Is My Button DVD $36.00
Haemophilia
Title Price
Living With Haemophilia $69.95
Heart
Title Price
Sarah's Story $3.30
HIV
Title Price
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Hydrocephalus
Title Price
Hydrocephalus - A Guide For Families DVD/Video $25.00
Hydrocephalus - A Handbook For Patients And Parents $11.00
Super Strategies For Successful Students CD (Hydrocephalus / Spina Bifida) $25.00
Kidney
Title Price
Kidney Failure - The Facts $38.50
Living With Kidney Failure $9.35
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Title Price
AGSA/ConnecTeD Personal Health Folder - with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Booklet $10.00
Osteogenesis Imperfecta - Caring for Children And Adolescents $5.00
Respiratory
Title Price
What's Up With Jasmine ? (Medikids Explain Swine Flu) $14.95
What's Up With Max ? (Medikidz Explains Asthma) $14.95
When Your Child Has Asthma $18.95
Sight
Title Price
My Fake Eye $10.95
Show Me What My Friends Can See $24.95
Skin
Title Price
Understanding Childhood Eczema $25.95
Spina Bifida
Title Price
Living With Spina Bifida $16.45
Super Strategies For Successful Students CD (Hydrocephalus / Spina Bifida) $25.00
Syndromes
Title Price
Babies With Down Syndrome $24.95
Children With Tourette Syndrome - A Parent's Guide (2nd Edition) $24.95
Children With Tourette Syndrome: A Parents Guide (Sale Price as 2nd Edition available @ $24.95) $9.95
PKU - Handbook $25.00
Raindrops And Sunshine $9.95
The Rett Syndrome Handbook (2nd Edition) $74.95
Learning Difficulties
Title Price
ADHD Recognition Reality and Resolution $39.95
Asperger Syndrome - A Guide For Parents And Professionals $27.95
Australian Autism Handbook $39.95
Children With Autism $25.95
Dyslexia - The Facts (Second Edition) $32.95
Everybody Is Different $12.95
Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome - A User Guide to Adolescence $29.95
Keys To Parenting The Child With Autism $10.95
Parent's Guide To Attention Deficit Disorders (2nd Edition) $45.00
Playing, Laughing And Learning With Children On The Autism Spectrum (2nd Edition) $36.95
Putting On The Brakes (2nd Edition) $15.95
Putting On The Brakes ACTIVITY BOOK $17.50
Raising Difficult Children (4th Edition) $27.95
Russell Is Extra Special $18.95
Super Strategies For Successful Students CD (Hydrocephalus / Spina Bifida) $25.00
Understanding ADHD $34.95
You And Your ADD Child $22.95
Mental Health
Title Price
52 Little Tips $22.00
Angry (Feelings Series) $7.15
Be You / Being Me Set (Book and Activity Sheets) $18.50
Brave (Feelings Series) $7.15
Bully Blocking (Revised Edition) $29.15
Cool Kids Program $35.00
Everybody Has Something $18.75
Facilitating Developmental Attachment $59.95
Helicopter Man $14.95
Helping Your Anxious Child (2nd Edition - 2008) $25.95
Postpartum Depression And Anxiety $19.75
The Panic Book $16.50
The Secret Problem $16.50
The Stress Reduction Workbook For Teens $22.95
What To Do When You Worry Too Much $17.95
What's Up with James ? (Medikidz Explain Depression) $14.95
Worried (Feelings Series) $7.15
Nutrition
Title Price
Breastfeeding With Confidence $26.95
Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby $5.50
Calorie Fat And Carbohydrate Counter (2012 Edition) $9.00
Eat Up, Max And Millie $11.95
Is Your Child Overweight ? $9.95
Kids Food Health Series - Book 1 (The First Year) $24.95
Kids Food Health Series - Book 2 (Toddler To Preschooler) $24.95
Kids Food Health Series - Book 3 (School-Age To Teenage) $24.95
Positive Food For Kids $34.95
Start Them Right - A Parent's Guide To Healthy Eating For Under Fives $3.50
What's Up with Paris ? (Medikidz Explain Childhood Overweight) $14.95
Parenting - Adolescents
Title Price
Bully Blocking (Revised Edition) $29.15
I Just Want You To Be Happy $27.50
Raising Boys (3rd Edition) $26.95
The Stress Reduction Workbook For Teens $22.95
What's Up with James ? (Medikidz Explain Depression) $14.95
Parenting - Baby And Child
Title Price
1-2-3 Magic (4th Edition) $29.95
Babies (2010) $32.95
Baby Bliss $29.95
Baby Love (5th Edition 2009) $39.95
Baby Massage $17.95
Back Off Bully $17.95
Beyond Toddlerdom $34.95
Beyond Toddlerdom Tips $14.95
Boss Of the Bladder $17.95
Bully Blocking (Revised Edition) $29.15
Developmental Delay (2009 Edition) $6.95
Easy Toilet Training $16.95
Eat Up, Max And Millie $11.95
Every Parent $35.00
Everyone's Got A Bottom $16.00
Facilitating Developmental Attachment $59.95
Fight-Free Families $14.95
For The Love Of Kids $25.00
From Birth To Five Years $32.00
How You Can Be Boss Of Bedtime $16.95
Infant Massage $21.95
Is Your Child Ready For School ? $20.95
Keys To Becoming A Father $18.65
Parenting By Heart $35.00
Parenting Posters (Set of 4) $10.00
Raising A Child with Arthritis $19.95
Raising Adopted Children $25.25
Raising Boys (3rd Edition) $26.95
Raising Girls $26.95
Shaking Your Baby Is Just Not The Deal $28.35
Sleep for Baby And Family $10.00
So Now You're A Grandparent $24.95
Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems $21.95
Sounds For Silence (Book and CD Set) $35.95
Teaching Your Child The Language Of Social Success $17.50
The Complete Secrets Of Happy Children $35.00
The Essential First Year $21.95
The Joy Of Parenting $25.95
The Mighty Toddler (2009 Edition) $39.95
Toddler Taming $34.95
Toddler Taming (2001 Edition - sale price as 2006 Edition now available @ $34.95 incl GST) $19.95
Toddler Taming Tips $17.95
Touchpoints (3 to 6) - Your Child's Emotional and Behavioural Development $22.95
Touchpoints (Birth to 3) $22.95
Watch Me, I Can Do It $18.65
You Are My World $15.95
Your Baby And Child (From Birth To Aged Five) $26.95
Your Child's Fitness $27.45
Your Child's Self Esteem $29.95
Premature Babies
Title Price
Hold Me $3.30
My Special Start $10.65
Premature Babies - A Guide For Parents $24.95
Understanding My Signals $6.50
Puberty And Sexualtiy
Title Price
Puberty Book 5ED $24.95
Puberty Boy $26.95
Puberty Girl $26.95
Sexuality And Acquired Brain Injury In Children And Adolescents $15.40
What's Happening To Me? $14.95
Where Did I Come From $14.95
Publications For Professionals
Title Price
Adolescent Health - GP Resouce Kit 2nd Edition $35.00
APEG Handbook On Childhood And Adolescent Diabetes $0.00
Australian Autism Handbook $39.95
Australian Nurses' Dictionary (3rd Edition) $27.50
Bully Blocking (Revised Edition) $29.15
Facilitating Developmental Attachment $59.95
Hypermobility, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain $94.55
Look At Me (Video) $22.00
On Call Paediatrics $74.95
Paediatrics Manual - The Children's Hospital at Westmead Handbook (2nd Edition 2009) $69.95
Shaking Your Baby Is Just Not The Deal $28.35
Show Me What My Friends Can See $24.95
Super Strategies For Successful Students CD (Hydrocephalus / Spina Bifida) $25.00
Talking With Patients And Families About Medical Error $35.00
The Deepening Shade $35.95
The Feeding Guide (6th Edition) $20.00
Treating Children With Botulinum Toxin - Clinical Practice (2006 Edition) $39.50
Weight Management Resource Package $46.40
Youth Health Forum DVD's **(Forums commenced mid-2007. Please indicate your title selection when ordering) $25.00
Relaxation
Title Price
A World Of Fun And Fantasy CD (Let's Imagine Series) $25.00
Adam's Garden $14.95
Kinda Yoga DVD $15.00
Music For Dreaming - CD $29.95
Music For Dreaming II CD $29.95
Starbright - Meditations For Children $22.95
The Crystal Castle CD (Let's Imagine Series) $25.00