When Mum Turned Invisible
Children's Books Friends / Family, Picture-Books
I see something you don’t see
Hennie’s mother is sick. To start with, she looks the same as she always did. No cough. No colds. No stomach ache. No lying on the couch, watching TV until she feels better. Her mother’s sickness is different. Invisible. Cancer makes everything disappear somehow. First the words, then the laughter, Mum’s appetite and Mum’s hair. Until even Mum herself almost disappears. But Hennie and Mum find a secret trick to make Mum visible.
A touchingly beautiful and comforting book on breast cancer – for the families affected and everyone around them.
- One woman in eight will get breast cancer
- An honest book for the many children who experience this at home, with a good outcome
- Warmly and expressively illustrated
Julia Rosenkranz, born in 1985, worked as a children’s book editor for several years before becoming an independent author. Chocolate and rubber boots are the guaranteed way to her heart. Partly autobiographical, ‘When Mum Turned Invisible’ is her first book with Klett Kinderbuch. She lives and works with her three daughters, dog and husband in Leipzig.
Nele Palmtag, born in 1973, initially trained as an occupational therapist before studying illustration and fashion design. Since then she has illustrated numerous children’s books, some of which she has written herself. ‘When Mum Turned Invisible’ is her first book with Klett Kinderbuch. Nele Palmtag lives with her family in Hamburg-Altona.
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I see something you don’t see
Hennie’s mother is sick. To start with, she looks the same as she always did. No cough. No colds. No stomach ache. No lying on the couch, watching TV until she feels better. Her mother’s sickness is different. Invisible. Cancer makes everything disappear somehow. First the words, then the laughter, Mum’s appetite and Mum’s hair. Until even Mum herself almost disappears. But Hennie and Mum find a secret trick to make Mum visible.
A touchingly beautiful and comforting book on breast cancer – for the families affected and everyone around them.
- One woman in eight will get breast cancer
- An honest book for the many children who experience this at home, with a good outcome
- Warmly and expressively illustrated