Available now
A Brave Kid's Guide to Leukemia
New diagnosis · hospital stays · big feelings
What leukemia is, what treatment may involve, and the questions kids might have along the way.
Help kids
navigate
serious
illness —
in words
they can
understand.
Hello Brave creates books and resources that help kids facing cancer and other serious illnesses understand their diagnosis, their treatment, and what comes next.
Written by a medical doctor. Created with pediatric oncologists, child life teams, and the kids who lived it.
Our books have reached families at
and 10+ more children's hospitals nationwide
The Brave Kid's Guides
When kids hear hard medical words, understanding matters
Each guide turns one frightening medical experience into something kids can see, name, and ask about — told through a Brave Kid and their wise Brave Buddy.
Available now
A Brave Kid's Guide to Lymphoma
New diagnosis · tests & scans · treatment
What lymphoma is, the tests that find it, and how treatment helps.
Coming soon
A Brave Kid's Guide to Chemotherapy
Treatment · side effects · what to expect
How chemo works, what might feel different, and ways kids can cope.
The leukemia guide is now available to order online! Amazon is coming soon. For the lymphoma guide, email us and we'll send copies to you directly.
Email to order lymphoma →
Meet the Brave Buddies
Every Brave Kid has a guide.
Cobi helps kids through diagnosis. Sid helps explain treatment. Every Brave Buddy is named after someone who helped change medicine.
Meet the Brave Buddies →Start where you are
Supporting a child through serious illness looks different for everyone. Find what you need.
Why Hello Brave
We wished we'd had the words from day one.
When our eight-year-old son was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma, we came home from the hospital and sat together in silence. We didn't know how to explain cancer — or everything that was about to happen to his body.
Hello Brave grew from that experience. We create the words and tools we wish we'd had from the beginning, so kids can understand what's happening to them and be part of the conversation about their own care.
Read our story →A Brave Kid's story
"Jessica, check out this cool book!"
A 7-year-old with leukemia received A Brave Kid's Guide while he was being homeschooled during treatment. After reading it with his mom, he came to clinic excited to tell his child life specialist that he finally understood spinal taps and blood cells.
Treatment wasn't just happening to him anymore. He understood what was happening.
— Jessica, Child Life Specialist
$12 puts a book in a kid's hands on diagnosis day.
Your gift helps give a child something we wish we'd had from the beginning: words for what's happening.
Sponsor a book — $12600+
books donated to kids and child life teams
14
hospital partners and growing
Hello Brave is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 99-1750228). Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
Let's be brave together.
New books, family resources, and stories from our community. A few emails a year.