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Dairy Free and Happy!: Help, happiness, and general advice for children who are allergic to dairy products
by Michelle Diana Lowe, Jennifer Pollan
Dairy Free and Happy is a children's book directed towards children with a dairy allergy. I would say that the target age range is in early elementary school.
I was extremely interested in this book since my youngest daughter (as well as myself) has a dairy and gluten allergy. She had to go gluten and dairy free while she was in elementary school, and there was some challenging times getting to understand how food impacted her body.
I read this book with my daughter and asked for her opinion. She said that the book said the information that she had needed to know when she was younger. She also said that it was done in a way that was easy to understand, although the first part of the book confused her a bit at first.
I think that her review of the book is perfect. There is a lot of useful information that is perfectly directed at young children. It shows what food to picks, emphasis eating whole foods, and treats having a dairy allergy as something that is not stigmatizing.
As a parent, the only aspect of the book that I thought was missing was helping a child to understand why dairy hurts their body. This could be very different for every child. However, I think the book would have benefited from at least one page about how dairy makes you feel yucky. I really wish that I had this book when my daughter was younger.
Audio Review
The book was written in England. So, the narrator has an English accent. However, all the pronunciation was well done and would be easy to understand by younger children who are from other English speaking countries. It is also great that the book has an international approach, making it inclusive to all countries. The first part of the audiobook was a bit confusing. There is an introduction to the book that would probably make more sense in the print version. In the audio version there is a what is going on moment. However, once you get past this point the book flows very well. I do not think anything was lost by not having the pictures. It may actually help younger children to focus on the content of the book. It would also be great to have the audio with the pictures so that younger children are better able to process the information that is presented in the book. Handling a dairy allergy at a young age can be difficult, and it often falls on the child to be diligent even at the younger age. This extra way of processing the information could be beneficial.
I was extremely interested in this book since my youngest daughter (as well as myself) has a dairy and gluten allergy. She had to go gluten and dairy free while she was in elementary school, and there was some challenging times getting to understand how food impacted her body.
I read this book with my daughter and asked for her opinion. She said that the book said the information that she had needed to know when she was younger. She also said that it was done in a way that was easy to understand, although the first part of the book confused her a bit at first.
I think that her review of the book is perfect. There is a lot of useful information that is perfectly directed at young children. It shows what food to picks, emphasis eating whole foods, and treats having a dairy allergy as something that is not stigmatizing.
As a parent, the only aspect of the book that I thought was missing was helping a child to understand why dairy hurts their body. This could be very different for every child. However, I think the book would have benefited from at least one page about how dairy makes you feel yucky. I really wish that I had this book when my daughter was younger.
Audio Review
The book was written in England. So, the narrator has an English accent. However, all the pronunciation was well done and would be easy to understand by younger children who are from other English speaking countries. It is also great that the book has an international approach, making it inclusive to all countries. The first part of the audiobook was a bit confusing. There is an introduction to the book that would probably make more sense in the print version. In the audio version there is a what is going on moment. However, once you get past this point the book flows very well. I do not think anything was lost by not having the pictures. It may actually help younger children to focus on the content of the book. It would also be great to have the audio with the pictures so that younger children are better able to process the information that is presented in the book. Handling a dairy allergy at a young age can be difficult, and it often falls on the child to be diligent even at the younger age. This extra way of processing the information could be beneficial.