What to Expect When You Go to the Doctor

by Heidi Murkoff

Book Overview

Children rarely like to go to the doctor. This book helps put them at ease by answering questions children most often ask with honesty, sensitivity, and humor. Full color. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0694013242
• ISBN13: 9780694013241
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Festival Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

A great book for young kids

We were given this book when my son was two years old. We would give this a hearty recommendation to anyone. Starting at about age 2 1/2 we read this book every day (often twice a day) before, after and during his "physicals" with a toy doctor's kit. This lasted for more than two months -- and he still (at age 3) occasionally asks for the doctor's book and song ("oh the doctor will listen to your heart" -- to the tune of 'She'll be coming round the mountain' -- and its many made up verses!) Anyway, the book itself offered good information which was easy for our son to understand. It offered us a lot of opportunity for discussion about doctors, what they do, why we need to go to the doctor, what happens at a checkup, why the doctor listens to our heart, why they look in our eyes and ears or push down on our tummy and so forth.

Wonderful Resource for Early Childhood Childcare Providers

As a Child Care Nurse Consultant, I provide health and education training for numerous childcare centers and homes. This book is a wonderful resource for easing the fears of young children when a docotor's appointment approaches. The exercises in the book are great fun and an excellent opportunity for learning!