^{AIDS and HIV Literature for}

^Children

Come Sit By Me, set in a multicultural daycare, is about Karen and her friends. One child, Nicholas, is often sick and absent from school. Eventually the children find out that Nicholas has AIDS. When Karen's parents hear that Nicholas is being left out by the other children, they help organize a meeting to address the fears of both caregivers and children.





A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living With Hiv
by River Huston, Mary Berridge (Photographer), Mary Erridge (Photographer)
The women portrayed in this profoundly moving volume of essays and photographs speak openly about their feelings and their hopes--and their anger and denial. 30 full-color photos.

Myths and Facts About AIDS (The AIDS Awareness Library)
by Anna Forbes
This book helps school-aged children to understand the difference between the myths about AIDS and the facts about the disease.






Where Did AIDS Come From? (The AIDS Awareness Library)
by Anna Forbes
This book discusses where AIDS  is believed to have come from. It is geared towards school-aged children and has a lot of great information that is done at a level  that the children can understand.




What Is Aids? (The AIDS Awareness Library)
by Anna Forbes
This is a book that again is geared towards school-aged children and it gives information on what AIDS is. The information is done at the children's level so that they can understand what AIDS really is.






Living in a World with AIDS
by Anna Forbes
This book has a lot of great information in it and is geared for school-aged children. It is among the series of the AIDS Awareness Library all by a women author named Anne Forbes.






Heroes Against AIDS
by Anna Forbes
This book features the story of Ryan White. He was a hemophiliac who contracted AIDS through the Factor 8 and transfusions he had to control his disease. This book will help put a face to this disease for school-aged children.





Kids with AIDS
by Anna Forbes
This book talks about kids with AIDS and is another great book for school-aged children from the AIDS Awareness Library.




When Someone You Know Has AIDS
by Anna Forbes
This book is in the AIDS Awareness Library series. This book helps schol-aged children understand what they should do if someone they know has contracted AIDS. This book would be great to use if a close family friend or someone in the family has AIDS.



What's a Virus, Anyway?: The Kids Book About AIDS
by Kelly McQueen (Contributor), David G. Fassler
This book talks about the HIV virus and shows what it looks like. It even has blank pages for children to draw the virus or anything they want to.



STUDENT RESOURCES
The HIV Virus


AIDS: Can This Epidemic Be Stopped?
by Karen Manning
This book has a lot of information that could be used in a report for school children. This book discusses the people who are living with HIV and AIDS. There are also chapters on the virus itself and the effects it has on people. There is a small section on Ryan White who was one of the first children to be very public with his battle against HIV and AIDS.




Always Remember: A Selection of Panels Created By and For International Fashion Designers
Photographs by Paul Margolies
This book has photographs of panels from the AIDS Quilt Project. This book also has quotes from the designers of the panels and what it has meant to them. This book really shows the human side of this disease and would be a great resource to use with children.




AIDS: What Every Student Needs to Know
by Spencer A. Rathus & Susan Boughn
This book has a lot of great information for school-aged children, but some of it may be a little too much for younger children. This book talks about all the different ways you can contract this disease and ways that you can prevent contraction.

Teaching AIDS

by Douglas Tonks
This book is for teachers to help them teach AIDS to school-aged children. It has help on how to present the myths and facts about AIDS transmission in a clear manner. It also gives teachers how to tailor age appropriate content for young children. There is a ton of great information for educators of all grades to use in their classrooms.




HIV/AIDS Information for Children: A Guide to Issues and Resources
by Virginia A. Walyer & Melissa Gross
This book is a great resource for educators of all grades. It has resources for educators to use and it has ways to adapted the information for the younger children.




A Small, Good Thing
by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
This book is full of stories of children who are infected with the HIV or have full blown AIDS. These stories are more then just a few pages, but they could be used in a classroom. A teacher can also choose exerts from this book to share with their students, and have them do reactions to the exerts.




Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
Edited by Andrea Rudd & Darien Taylor
This book contains short stories and poems from women who are living with HIV and AIDS. This book is more geared towards adults, but there are poems and short stories within this book that could be used with school-aged children with the guidance of their teachers.




Mindful Messages
by Deborah Day
Mindful Messages scans complex social issues through a poetic healing conscious and delivers simple spiritual solutions. In particular it focuses on the social and cultural impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is racing across the black community.



Questions & Answers on AIDS
by Lynn Robert Frumkin, MD, PhD & John Martin Leonard, MD
This book has a lot information that could be used with older school-aged children, but it can also be a great resource for educators to use to familiarize themselves with the disease. This book contains 188 questions and answers on AIDS and it also has a glossary for medical and AIDS terms that are used throughout the book.





BIOGRAPHIES
Ryan White link click on book

Ryan White: My Own Story
by Ryan White, Ann Marie Cunningham (Contributor)
This is the story of Ryan White, and he was one of the first people to go public about having this disease. He got AIDS because he was a hemophiliac. He was constantly having blood transfusions and using what is called Factor 8 to control his disease.




AIDS: Ten Stories of Courage (Collective Biographies)
by Doreen Gonzales

You Get Past the Tears: A Memoir of Love and Survival
by Patricia Broadbent, Hydeia Broadbent, Patricia Romanowski (Contributor)
In 1984, Patricia Broadbent, a mother and former social worker, adopted Hydeia, an infant born to a drug-addicted mother. Three years later, the sickly baby girl was diagnosed with AIDS. This book is the story of raising Hydeia at a time when very little was known about pediatric AIDS. Although both mother and daughter are listed as authors, almost all of the book is in the mother's words. Hydeia, now about 18, is doing well and working as an AIDS activist.







I wanted to do this page because growing up I was not taught much about AIDS and HIV. Even in high school  a lot of things were not discussed because of the controversy surrounding the AIDS Epidemic. Through looking up books at libraries and going on the web I realize that there is a wealth of knowledge out there on the subject of AIDS and HIV that is geared towards school-aged children. We as a world need to educate the future of tomorrow so that we can have a future without AIDS in the world. I hope that trough this page I have given at least one person the tools to educate themselves and others of this epidemic, and if I have done that for at least one person then that is enough for me.


"No day but today" -Jonathan Larson (Rent)