Going to hospital can be very daunting for children. Monkey is here to help explain it all through stories and activities. Monkey has a very interesting background as he was created by Helen Sadler, an ex-teacher, for her little girl when she faced major lung surgery.
Through the stories and activities Monkey explains different health procedures and the NHS to young children to help them understand treatments they may have/services they may use with an aim to help them feel calm and relaxed when receiving healthcare and also to improve their knowledge of what happens in an emergency and how to be healthy etc. The stories are engaging with a focus on being realistic, explaining sounds, smells, and sights, to help children recognise environments they may encounter.
Last year when we found Ms C with multiple lumps around her neck, armpits and groin, we were told she might have lymphadenopathy. Our life became a roller coaster with visits to the hospital and blood tests. It would have been great if we had these Monkey Wellbeing booklets to hand to explain to Ms C what is going on especially when Monkey has a blood test. Inside this booklet, it explains in simple plain English with pictures which is very easy for us to convey the message to Ms C.
We had received Monkey’s Guide to Healthy Living and NHS Services; Monkey Visits the Emergency Department activity guide; Monkey has a Blood Test; Monkey Has An Asthma Attack; Monkey’s asthma guide, the Monkey puppet and NHS explorer sticker sets. They are all available to buy from the Monkey Wellbeing website. Monkey Has Type 1 Diabetes book, Monkey Starts School book, Monkey’s book on Hearing, Monkey has an Injection book and Monkey’s Guide To Your Hospital Stay are all coming soon so keep an eye out if any of these interest you.
We find that the booklets are easy to understand and it’s great that they come with photo illustrations. Ms C enjoys reading together with me and we both gain knowledge on each Monkey adventure. Some of the stories are not relevant for us now but maybe in the near future we might need a good read.
Disclosure: I received these booklets from the publisher for free. However, they have not paid me for this review, and they do not exercise any editorial control over my review or anything else on this site.
The hungry caterpillar 🙂
PETER RABBIT
The Snail and the Whale
enid blyton books
The Gruffalo
A BOOK CALLED SOCKS
We’re going on a Bear Hunt … but only if its read with special voices and sound effects
Penguin
Room on the Broom
The Gruffalo
We’re going on a bear hunt!
the minecraft handbooks
Hugless Douglas
winnie the witch
The Rhyming Rabbit
Winnie the witch
James and the Giant Peach
The Gruffalo
At the moment it’s Mr Strong but he’s fairly mercurial in his preferences lol
Peppa Pig books 🙂
Peppa Pig annual.
Famous Five by Enid Blyton
The Gruffalo
Emergency 🙂
Peppa Pig
The Famous Five Books
So many at the moment she loves her in the night garden board books
angelina ballerina
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
the gingerbread man, and she has these set f books called maisy, its about a mouse and has a maisy goes shopping maisy goes to bed etc… she loves them
little rabbit foo foo
where’s the green sheep
Robotslayer by Vincent Kamp (which we were lucky enough to win on this fab blog!)
the twits
Wibbly Pig has 10 balloons
The hungry catapillar
tom gates books
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
I think his 40 Thomas and Friends books are joint favourite at the moment. Would make a nice change to bed time to have a new book to read, especially one that prepares him if, god forbid, he ever needs to go to hospital.
sSix Dinners Sid
Horrid Henry
The stickman
Incy wincy spider
Tiger who came to tea
Stick man
thomas
horrid henry x
The Gruffalo
Meg and Mog
My son loves a book called giganasaraus – its about dinosaurs and I read it every night!
All of the Mr Men books.
the gruffalo
The very ticklish tiger
the Disney princess books are her fav at the moment
Guess how much I love you! 🙂
My daughter loves her Peppa Pig books at the moment!
has to be the hungry caterpillar but my son is loving his frieman sam books at the moment x
The hungry caterpillar
shark in the dark
Ten Little Pirates
Spot Bakes a Cake
Dear Zoo
The Gruffalos child
Horrid Henry
The Hungry Caterpillar
The Gruffalo
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We’re going on a bear hunt!
Marvin gets Mad.
The Magic faraway tree
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Spot the dog
The Gruffalos child
The Gruffalo 🙂
The Hungary Caterpillar
Room on a broom
Spot the Dog
the gruffalo,
The Gruffalo is his favourite
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
My son loves all the Topsy and Tim books at the mo
The Cat in the Hat
winnie the pooh
Musical book with oopsy daisy
Guess how much I love you
he loves Spider Sandwiches
My youngest daughter loves The Very Hungry caterpillar!