The books, aimed at children from three to seven years old, have been written by ex-nanny Jenny Leigh, who wished to marry her more current experience of working in healthcare communications with 15 years of looking after various sick charges, step-children and nieces and nephews. 'When they were ill I couldn't find books like this in the shops,' she says. Her niece's experience of asthma inspired her to write about Charlie Cheetah, and it is backed by the National Asthma Campaign. Three more books are planned - one about a lion with nits in his mane.
* Asthma affects one in eight children in Britain and 90 per cent of patients have developed the condition by the age of six. Last month the BMJ Publishing Group and the American Society of Pediatrics launched Paediatric Asthma - the UK's first virtual journal. More than 400 articles on asthma are available at www.paediatric-asthma.org.
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