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Facts for the fragile

May 21st, 2015

As a University of Victoria instructor, Jillian Roberts first co-wrote School Children with HIV/AIDS (Detselig, 1999) with Kathleen Cairns. As a Child and Adolescent psychologist in Victoria, the UVic educational psychologist has since created an app called Facts of Life and written a book for ages 3-to-6, Where Do Babies Come From?: Our First Talk About Birth (Orca $19.95), illustrated by Cindy Revell. It’s the first book in her Just Enough series to include topics such as death, cultural diversity, and parental separation or divorce. As a psychologist she specializes in medically fragile children. 9781459809420

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