Day by Day by Me

One of the most boring things for children with epilepsy must be the necessary keeping track of seizures day by day. This is a brilliant way of doing so. In an exceedingly ‘cool’ diary format, we are given a year of week by week charts to record when seizures happen, the type, whether the person is awake or asleep at the time, and the trigger of the attack. Each weekly chart is decorated by an artist – and what artists! Jez Alborough, Quentin Blake, Nick Sharratt, Helen Oxenbury, Catherine Anholt, Anthony Browne and Colin McNaughton to name a very few. Polly Dunbar’s little face stickers at the back of the book will provide further fun as children decide their general mood on any given day. Along the way there are jokes, puns, games and information about epilepsy. The spiral binding makes the book easy to use. This is a remarkable production from the NCYPE and one of which they should be proud.