Happy Nappy Storytelling featuring Phyllisa Deroze & Jalanah Deroze

About the authors:

Dr. Phyllisa Smith Deroze and Jalanah Deroze are a dynamic mother-and-daughter team broadening diabetes awareness. Dr. Deroze is a global diabetes advocate and Founder of Black Diabetic Info, and the blog Diagnosed Not Defeated. She was inspired to write this book with her 7-year-old daughter after seeing Jalanah mimic checking her blood sugar at three years old. After discovering that there were no age-appropriate diabetes resources to explain diabetes to a child who wasn't diagnosed with diabetes, Dr. Deroze knew the two would write one. Diabetes Helpers is a pioneering children's book, and it is the first children's book to honor children who have loved ones in their lives with diabetes. The book also covers three types of diabetes; type 1, type 2, and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. Follow along as Jalanah helps her mother, Grace helps her brother, and Antonio helps his grandfather live happier with…