This is a great picture book that fosters family conversations around diabetes from the perspective of a child with a mother with type 1 diabetes. The author, Kimberly Baillieul, purposefully made the book simplistic to help keep the attention of young children and encourage the reader to ask the child questions. This is a needed resource for the diabetes community, as more and more adults with type 1 diabetes are becoming parents, and more adults who are already parents are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

Baillieul did a wonderful job of depicting real life as a mom with type 1 diabetes and some of the challenges in balancing a mother’s own needs with those of their children. She shows different diabetes devices to help children better understand what they are and talks about ways in which children can help their parent with diabetes. For example, being patient when mommy drinks a juice box and realizing that it’s mommy’s medicine. The book would be helpful for children who have a parent or loved one with type 1 diabetes.