HLPI Books Announces That Motion Picture Producer Rocky Lang, (White Squall) and writer/illustrator Sally Huss, Have Released a New Illustrated Book For Children with Diabetes. The Book Is Titled Lara Takes Charge.

Lara Takes Charge, was written as a labor of love by Lang who has a 12 year old daughter with diabetes. Lang felt that there was a need for empowering material dealing with the social challenges that children living with diabetes face on a daily basis. He set out to create a book that would inspire and deliver an optimistic and powerful message to children all over the world, to feel like a normal kids.

Northridge, CA (PRWEB) August 31, 2004 -- Lara Takes Charge, was written as a labor of love by Lang who has a 12 year old daughter with diabetes. Lang felt that there was a need for empowering material dealing with the social challenges that children living with diabetes face on a daily basis. He set out to create a book that would inspire and deliver an optimistic and powerful message to children all over the world, to feel like a normal kids.

Lara Takes Charge, tells the story of a little girl who can do everything that all the other kids do except she needs to check her blood sugar and she uses an insulin pump. In the end, Lara says Yes, I am normal as normal can be, I love just being me."

Feeling normal" is an aspect that all children who are challenged with a chronic illness face everyday. Lang was compelled to write the book after he took his daughter to the doctor for her routine physical. When he asked the nurse about the new nasal flu vaccine, she responded that his daughter had to be normal." I came away from that experience thinking about what constituted normal and what these kids go though everyday doing all the normal things," said Lang.

The book was illustrated by artist and writer, Sally Huss, The Happy Book, I Love You With All My Hearts and Butterfly Kisses.

Lara Takes Charge, has been praised by the American Diabetes Association, The Junior Diabetes Research Foundation, The American Association of Diabetic Educators and in centers in Canada, New Zealand, and in The United States. Dr. Kevin Kaiserman, Medical Director Clinical Diabetes Program, Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles California says this about Lara Takes Charge.

This book goes straight to core of living with a chronic illness. Every child wants to feel accepted and capable of achieving anything. Thank you to Rocky and Sally for providing a positive and brilliantly illustrated message for children living with diabetes."

The book can be purchased at www.Amazon.com or at the authors website www.hlpibooks.com