Medikidz Explain Prostate Cancer: What's Up With Charlie's Grandad?

Chilman-blair, Kim

ISBN 10: 1604431989 / ISBN 13: 9781604431988

Editore: Amer Cancer Society, 2013

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• Titolo: Medikidz Explain Prostate Cancer: What's Up With Charlie's Grandad?
• Editore: Amer Cancer Society
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1604431989
• ISBN 13: 9781604431988
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Disegnatore: DeLoache, Shawn
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Prostate cancer is explained in graphic novel format in this informative story that makes the science behind cancer accessible to young readers. The Medikidz are larger-than-life superheroes who live in Mediland, a living, moving virtual world within the human body. Each character is an expert on one component of human anatomy and the role it plays in fighting the disease. Using their extensive combined knowledge, the Medikidz conduct a journey through Mediland, exploring complex medical issues in a language and visual style that is attractive and accessible to tweens and teens. Appropriate humor and adventure are blended with accurate facts, so young readers can understand prostate cancer and its causes.

Informazioni sull?autore

Kim Chilman-Blair, BSc, MBChB, is a medical writer and the founder and CEO of Medikidz, a company dedicated to providing peer-reviewed health information to young people in comic book form. She is the author of the Medikidz series. Shawn deLoache is the lead graphic novelist for the children's health education series Medikidz and the author of the young adult novel, Good Man. They both live in New York City.