Nurse Florence®, Why and How Do We Breathe? teaches children how the body performs the function of breathing and how proper breathing impacts their health. Why was this an important topic to write about?

I mainly chose this topic because I thought it would be fun to cover for kids. It’s something we all do all day long and thought that some things could be presented that even parents could learn. We try to make every Nurse Florence book enjoyable for the whole family, not just the kids. We want everyone to walk away from each book thinking, “Cool, I didn’t know that.”

I have seen that you have coloring books to go along with the Nurse Florence series for some of the books. Do you have plans to add other learning materials to this series to help children retain the information?

We plan to do a word search book in the future.

What is the hardest part for you about writing the books in this series?

It is starting to be time. We have started creating Nurse Florence for Beginning Readers books to help 4 and 5 year old access very basic health information. We are converting all of our general science books into this series. Visit www.nurseflorence.org for the latest info.

What topics can readers expect to see in the future from Nurse Florence? How do you decide what the next book will be about?

We are about to publish a book on pneumonia. We have started discussing the need to eat a balanced diet to eat the numerous essential vitamins our body needs. People can check out Nurse Florence, Why Do I Need to Eat Vitamin C? at www.lulu.com. Many of the upcoming Nurse Florence titles were picked because the disease affects the assigned illustrators’ families. We are not only discussing common diseases like Type 2 Diabetes, but also rare diseases like Polymicrogyria.

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