Nurse Florence®, Tell Me About the Colon follows three friends who ask the school nurse about the colon, and she explains the parts, functions, and importance of the colon. What challenges did you face when writing this book?

The Nurse Florence® project publishes books as fast as the illustrators can produce drawings so the challenge I deal with is not being able to publish books in the project faster.  We are aiming to complete the project of around 500 books in the series by the end of 2029.

With so many topics to cover with Nurse Florence, how do you decide which topic is the next one you will cover?

We partner with illustrators to help decide topics.  Since the disease books can be so long, I usually ask the illustrator if there is a disease that affects their family that they want to cover.  If not, then we have a master list of diseases that we pick from.  Sometimes we pick a disease that is popular in the news at the moment, and every fourth book is a rare disease book so we have a list of those as well that we are going through.

Are there any authors you draw inspiration from?

Anyone that is thorough.  I enjoy reading evidence-based research articles regarding health topics. 

I have noticed that some of your Nurse Florence books come with a corresponding coloring book. How do you decide which topics will have a companion coloring book?

Companion coloring books are actually the choice of the illustrator.  If they choose to take the time to take out the color and send me lined art, then we create coloring books.  Over a third of the Nurse Florence® series has been turned into a coloring book edition.  We want kids to learn another coping skill of drawing as they learn to relax and find peace.

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