Baby Medical School: Vaccines

This book is fantastic. It explains viruses and the immune system really well on top of explaining vaccines. Bright colours and really easy to follow - perfect for both my 3 and 6 year olds.

This is a great book. So much information and very attractive to look at. I read it to my preschool class.

For a layperson, this is a simple read for parents to share with their children. Useful especially during pandemic times

The Baby Medical School "Doctor's Visit" was recommended by a blog to help prep kids for their annual physicals and shots. My daughter does really well with new/scary experiences if we can talk about it, read books about it, or find online videos or tv show episodes about what we will do. So, I purchased that one to help prep for her 4 year old well child, and saw this as a suggested "Also Buy." Well, she had been asking a lot about coronavirus, vaccines, and germs so I purchased as well. Both books are AMAZING at helping young kids comprehend medical stuff at their level.This Vaccines book walks through what a virus is, how a vaccine works, and how the body fights off viruses. It's pretty, cute, and fun, but also (as far as I know) scientifically accurate. Maybe simplifies it a bit, but obviously considering the audience that's fine. As you read you can bring in other things they are learning like shapes and patterns (the viruses have little patterned spike proteins, and then the antigens the body makes have the same pattern spikes, etc.). "Baby Medical School" is a bit of a misnomer, as it's definitely at a preschool age. A baby would probably find the pictures fun, but I think 2.5-6 years old is probably the ideal target for the content. Possibly older like 6-12 years old if you can get them to sit and look at a board book.My daughter has since taught her preschool class about viruses, antibodies, macrophages, and vaccines. I was asked by other parents at drop off if my husband or I was an infectious disease researcher (LOL no, we are just run of the mill government worker/engineer) because she had taught their kids so much. I sent them off to buy a copy for themselves. Because she understands the reasons why we wear our masks, and why the adults are all getting vaccinated, her anxiety around COVID has decreased. She did get so happy to hear her teacher was vaccinated against COVID-19 that she started to cry (a typical joyful-tears response for my empathetic kid) and keeps asking when it's her turn.

I'm a biochemistry major so it was pretty exciting reading this to my 4 month old son. Of course he doesn't understand it yet but he likes the pictures. The concepts are simplified nicely and I'm sure when he learns what words mean this will be very educational.