Spot a fun way to explain asthma

By Anne Wiltsher, Nursery World, 6 June 2002

'Charlie Cheetah loves sport at school, but every time he runs around he feels out of breath. Mrs Cheetah brought him to see me.' So begins Charlie Has Asthma (Haldane Mason, £4.99), one of a series of three Dr Spot books, designed to reassure children about particular health problems. Dr Spot is a friendly leopard GP with an exemplary bedside manner. Besides Charlie, his other animal patients to date are Harriet the Hippopotamus with tonsillitis, and Mike the Monkey with chickenpox. The books, aimed at children from three to seven years old, have been written by ex-nanny Jenny Leigh, who...

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