Picture Books About Illness

Check out these books if you're looking for a way to help talk to your child about illnesses, both serious and more common.

Updated June 14, 2024
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County)Molalla Library
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Abuela's super capa
Siqueira, Ana
Paper Book
A heartwarming bilingual picture book about a young boy who learns to accept that Abuela needs to retire her super capa.  Saturdays are superhero days. Equipped with their milkshakes and capas, Luis and his abuela can turn anything into an adventure. But when Abuela gets sick,...
Franklin goes to the hospital
Jennings, Sharon.
Paper Book
In this Franklin Classic Storybook, our hero learns what feeling scared and feeling brave really mean. A heartwarming introduction to the hospital.
Bear feels sick
Wilson, Karma.
Paper Book
The sixth installment of Karma Wilson's award-winning, New York Times bestselling series about a Bear and his forest friends. Autumn has come to the woods, and Bear doesn't feel well. He sniffles and sneezes. He cannot sleep. He aches all over. Worst of all, he's feeling...
Another way to climb a tree
Scanlon, Elizabeth Garton
Paper Book
When Lulu's feeling well, she climbs every tree in sight, especially the tallest ones, the ones with the widest branches, the ones with the stickiest sap. But when Lulu's sick, she's not allowed outside. She wonders if the trees are lonely without her. Maybe the...
Bob, not Bob!
Scanlon, Elizabeth Garton
Paper Book
From the Caldecott Award-winning and bestselling team of Audrey Vernick, Liz Garton Scanlon, and Matthew Cordell comes a hilarious sick-day read-aloud! Little Louie is stuck in bed with a bad cold. His nose is clogged, his ears are crackling, and his brain feels full. All he...

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