For women with a cancer diagnosis, or for family and friends looking for a way to help, Nowhere Hair gently explains life during chemotherapy and addresses the biggest concerns of children ages 3-7.
The little girl in Nowhere Hair knows one thing: her mother's hair is missing. In trying to solve that mystery, the story reveals that her mother, although going through cancer treatment, is still silly, attentive, fashionable, happy, and yes, sometimes very tired and cranky.
Nowhere Hair helps prepare young ones for living with someone going through chemotherapy. It addresses a child's guilt, fear, sadness and anxiety with a light touch. But it is a children's book after all. It is silly and fun and upbeat and involves many crazy hats and a strikingly cool-looking bald woman.
What elevates this from a book simply about cancer to something worthwhile for all children is the underlying and clear theme of being kind to those that might look different than you, and realizing that what is inside of us is far more important than how we look on the outside.
My hope is that Nowhere Hair can provide guidance to women walking in my shoes. I wrote it to be a conversation starter between child and adult, because the words are hard to find when you are in the midst of it all.
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"Everyday, families with young children ask us for help in talking to their children about cancer, hair loss, and surgery. How wonderful to be able to give them this charming and beautifully illustrated storybook, "Nowhere Hair!
Who should read this book?
Every child of every mother and grandmother going through chemotherapy. Every mom with young children can use this book to explain what happens to someone going through cancer treatment -- or any serious illness. It is a great way to build empathy in young children and help them to relate through beautiful and touching illustrations.
This book provides a great starting place for talking to children about cancer -- and the outward things that can be so scary to children and adults. It has just the right tone and provides comfort and solace, to the young and the not so young!"
Laura Esserman, MD, MBA
Director, Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
Professor of Surgery and Radiology, UCSF
Associate Director, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Growing up, I was exposed to many women diagnosed with breast cancer because of my mother's job. Often these women became part of my life as close family friends. When you are young, it is hard to grasp the significance and entirety of such an enormous life change. This book would have definitely been a source of comfort, with its captivating and disarming illustrations and reassuring narrative."
Marisa Endicott, Age 19
Who was 4 when her mother, Dr. Laura Esserman, started taking her to work
"Cancer is scary, life-altering and challenging for grown-ups. It rocks the world of a child when the adults they love face the dark corridors of cancer diagnosis and treatment. This beautifully illustrated and sensitively crafted children's story will be read over and over by children and their grown-ups. Complex issues such as guilt, blame, body image changes and fear are addressed and navigated. Pick up this book: I recommend Nowhere Hair to parents and caregivers to read aloud with children, to Cancer Resource Centers, children's libraries and schools, to oncology nurses, physicians and mental health professionals. Above all, I recommend this book for children; may it help them ask the questions they don’t know how to ask and add light to some of those dark corridors."
Deborah Hamolsky RN, MS, AOCNS
UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
"Nowhere Hair is very visually appealing, easy to read, and addresses many of the issues that come up for kids who have a parent with cancer that they may be afraid to talk about or ask about. Cuddling up and reading this book with Mom would be a very safe way to deal with those feelings, which include fear, confusion, guilt, loss and anger."
Michael D. Amylon, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation
Stanford University School of Medicine
Friday, August 6, 2010
Review: Nowhere Hair by Sue Glader
I’ve had three close friends diagnosed with breast cancer in their 30s – all have kids. So when I heard about Sue Glader’s new book picture book Nowhere Hair, I knew I had to read it. It’s not aimed at me, though. It’s a kids’ book, gently talking about a mother’s cancer. The imaginative narrator, a cute little girl, wonders if Mommy’s hair is being used in a sparrow’s nest, or perhaps by a cat needing a warmer coat.
She learns, of course, that her mother has cancer and the medicine is causing her hair to fall out. Without getting complicated or preachy (and with no talk of death), the girl learns that Mommy’s cancer isn’t any fault of her daughter’s, and isn’t contagious. She sees that Mommy has hats for every mood: sleepy, grumpy silly and happy (fortunately lots more hats for the happy Mommy).
And the little girl shares her compassion for others to be kind to bald women like her Mommy. She knows that while Mommy looks different and has less energy, she’s the same inside as she always was.
Nowhere Hair is beautifully illustrated by Edith Buenen, with whimsical watercolor pictures of the narrator and her mother. Pictures are worth 1,000 words here –silently continuing the story – like Mommy lying on the couch while her daughter plays with the dollhouse. And Mommy spending quality time with her daughter, whether cuddling or cooking together.
Though the book is not sad, I have to admit I had tears in my eyes reading it. Maybe it’s just the idea that this book even has to be out there. I can picture my friends, with their bald heads covered, curled up on the couch or bed with their kids reading this story.
Glader, a Marin resident, wrote the book after experiencing it for herself. If you have a friend or loved one with cancer (and she has kids), get this book for her. You can buy it ($15.99) online from the author, at or at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Mill Valley’s Depot Bookstore and Mill Valley Hatbox and Books Inc. in Palo Alto.
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The best stuff. In small snippets.
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Who am I?
I am a person who loves words. I cuddle with them. I like them. A lot. (Which is always two words, and not one.)
I’ve been a copywriter and editor since graduating from Stanford and self-employed working with words since I began my career in 1988. But that’s not who I am.
I have one child, a son, which means I am a mother while also being a wife. But that is not who I am.
When Hans was just 13-months old and I was only 33, I found a strange pea-sized lump under my left armpit that changed everything. That was 10 years ago now. I'm not a huge fan of the word “survivor”, because that is not who I am. I mean, I am surviving. I just don’t like the label.
I drive an old German convertible sportscar, because life is short and I want to enjoy myself. And nobody dreams about owning an SUV or minivan.
I am in a 12-step recovery program for chronic school volunteerism, having been on a board and every committee at one school, and a founding family at another (the New Village School in Sausalito, California).
I live in Marin County, California. While being one of the most spectacularly beautiful places on earth, Marin also the breast cancer capital of America. So I've learned to take the bad with the good.
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“Mood changes are more difficult for children to understand than the more concrete aspects of an illness. This book does an excellent job of showing these moods. The story is realistic without being scary. This book would be good not just for children of cancer patients but also for children of parents with other chronic diseases such as Hepatitis C.A variety of illness and treatments can cause an individual to be irritable or moody.”
Carol Watkins, Psychiatrist, Baltimore, MD
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