Family, patients, doctors and nurses talk about the experience and lessons of battling childhood cancer.
Based on the Emmy-winning film of the same name, the book captures the first-person voices of the film's subjects in words and pictures. It also includes a parallel narrative of the filmmakers' journey over the eight years it took to make the film.
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"Listen closely to the voices in this book and you will hear powerful testimony to the incredible courage and resilience of men, women and children who face unbelievable challenges as they wage war against cancer.
The voices in this book belong to five families who invited award-winning filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar into their lives for six years as their children were being treated in the pediatric oncology unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
The stunning, heartbreaking and heartwarming footage they captured became the documentary A Lion in the House, which debuted to fantastic acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be broadcast to millions by PBS. "
(Richard M. Feldman) Ever since I was a young boy, the only thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. I wanted to own and work on a real ranch, with cattle and horses. Especially horses.
While I never became a cowboy, considering everything I have done
