Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs, and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking...

When Mudge gets sick unexpectedly, Henry does all he can to make him feel better

When Sally Cat, Mr. and Mrs. Cat, and everyone at school come down with colds, Huckle and Lowly take care of their ailing friends in messy, silly ways that culminate in two more sick patients by the end of a busy day.

Claiming to be too ill to do chores or go to school, the Little Princess makes a miraculous recovery when a party invitation arrives.

Katie misses school while she is home with the flu.

"From a gifted writer who spent two years in a support group for people caring for elderly and ill spouses, parents, and friends, The Caregivers chronicles the daily experiences--heart-breaking, poignant, and redemptive--of ordinary Americans as they face their final life passages"--Provided by publisher.

When the reindeer get bad colds, Santa Claus wonders who will be able to pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve

With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.

Carl tends to a sick puppy while the puppy's father takes the rest of his babies for a walk.