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Use Your Voice by Alice Paul Tapper

Use Your Voice

Hardcover – Picture Book, August 27, 2024

Alice Paul Tapper

Penguin Young Readers Group · Hardcover · August 27, 2024

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Raise Your Hand comes an important book about making your voice heard, especially when others refuse to listen.

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Who it’s for
Alice’s fictionalized true story follows her effort to be heard and get an appendicitis diagnosis.
Themes
Self-advocacy, Medical emergency, Being believed
Genres
Illness & Injury, Big Feelings

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About this book

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Raise Your Hand comes an important book about making your voice heard, especially when others refuse to listen. After a harrowing experience at the hospital, Alice Paul Tapper—daughter of CNN's Jake Tapper—shares her story with the help of some imaginary friends. When Alice wakes up with a terrible pain in her stomach, she's not sure what might be the cause.

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A doctor at the hospital asks her to pick which face on a numbered pain chart best shows the suffering that she's experiencing. The problem is, she's nervous and isn't sure. That's when the faces turn into imaginary friends who help her speak up about what she's feeling. This fictionalized version of Alice's real experience chronicles her struggle to get the right diagnosis after suddenly being struck with appendicitis. Caregivers and kids alike will benefit from reading this meaningful book about advocating for yourself during a medical emergency. With whimsical and comforting illustrations by Fanny Liem, the gentle telling of this true story will resonate with anyone who has ever struggled to be believed.

Hospital Pain Chart

Alice’s fictionalized true story follows her effort to be heard and get an appendicitis diagnosis.

Come here for

  • A child’s struggle to describe stomach pain at the hospital
  • Imaginary friends who help Alice speak up

Expect

  • A numbered pain chart and a doctor’s question
  • Whimsical illustrations by Fanny Liem

Where it sits

Illness & Injury94%
Big Feelings62%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Illness & Injury
  • Big Feelings
  • Imagination & Play
Authors
Alice Paul Tapper
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
August 27, 2024
Format
Hardcover
Theme
Self-advocacy · Medical emergency · Being believed
Reading lane
Illness & Injury