September · Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

300 Books
to 300 Kids

Help me get 300 Brave from A to Z books into the hands of children fighting cancer. Every $15 sends one.

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✦Because a child is more precious than gold.✦

H is for Hope

The Heart Behind This

Brave from A to Z was born in one of the hardest seasons our family has ever walked through.

It started at our kitchen table, two months after our son was diagnosed with cancer for the second time. We were having breakfast, playing the alphabet game we always play as a family, choosing words letter by letter. And I thought, what if there were an alphabet for cancer warriors? So right there over breakfast, we began naming them together, A to Z, words for the kids walking through treatment. The game fit our family, and it fit his story.

I had found plenty of books about what cancer is. I had never found one about who the warrior is. Because these children are not just kids with cancer, not just kids fighting for their lives. They are also, simply, kids.

I have learned that brave is not the absence of fear. It is the essence of these warriors, and I watched it in my own son. The first time he had his port accessed, he was so scared. He screamed, but he stayed so very still. He was afraid, but he was brave. He did the hard thing. And after that first poke, each one got a little easier, and so did being brave.

Nemours is the hospital that treats my son, and it is where we have walked alongside so many of these warriors and their families. That is why I wrote this book, letter by letter, to tell the next child who walks through those doors that they are not alone, they are seen, and they were made for this kind of courage. Even here, they can find hope and joy. Now I want to put it in their hands.

B is for Brave

Why This Book

Brave from A to Z walks a child through the alphabet, one brave word at a time. It is small enough for little hands and big enough to hold onto on the scary days, in the hospital bed, in the waiting room, through the long nights. For a newly diagnosed child and the parents sitting beside them, it is a reminder that hope showed up with their name on it.

G is for Give

What Your Gift Does

Every $15 sends one Brave book to one child fighting cancer.

$15One book for one brave child

$30Two books

$75Five books

$150Ten books

$300Twenty books

$750Fifty books

$1,500100 books, the full Nemours batch

$4,500All 300 books, 300 kidsThe whole goal

Give any amount. Every $15 sends one more book.

Where they go

Every one of the 300 books goes to a child fighting cancer. The first 100 are hand-delivered to the Child Life team at Nemours Children's, and the rest reach more children through our growing hospital and community partners, so hope is waiting from the very first days.

Start to finish

How It Works

1

You give

Sponsor one book or three hundred, whatever is on your heart.

2

We print

Your gift goes straight to printing Brave from A to Z.

3

Into brave hands

The books are hand-delivered to children fighting cancer, beginning with the kids at Nemours.

Every book has a child's face at the end of it.

The Heart Behind This

Why This Book

What Your Gift Does

How It Works

One book.One brave kid.$15.

One book.
One brave kid.
$15.