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How Do You Care for a Very Sick Bear?

Vanessa Bayer

From debut children's author Vanessa Bayer and illustrator Rosie Butcher, You and your friend Bear

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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

It was described as a beautiful and emotional children's book about helping friends who are sick and navigating the awkwardness of illness. The author was motivated to write it based on her own experience with childhood leukemia and how it affected her interactions with others.

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It's for kids to really understand if their friend gets sick, how do they navigate that and react? It's really a sweet children's book.

— Episode: Vanessa Bayer

Episode: Vanessa Bayer

It was described as a beautiful and emotional children's book about helping friends who are sick and navigating the awkwardness of illness. The author was motivated to write it based on her own experience with childhood leukemia and how it affected her interactions with others.

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It's for kids to really understand if their friend gets sick, how do they navigate that and react? It's really a sweet children's book.

I sort of, um, I, I wanted to write that because I was like, uh, I noticed like from, from me being sick, like a lot of times people get like really freaked out when someone is sick and they think like, sure. Maybe their personality has changed or something.

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