Meet the Brave Buddies
Brave Buddies are friendly little creatures who help kids through diagnoses, procedures, and treatment. They answer the questions kids are too nervous to ask, and make big medical ideas feel a little smaller.
The Brave Buddy for diagnosis
Cobi knows about everything, and loves turning big medical words into ideas kids can picture.
Named after
Abraham Jacobi, often called the “Father of American Pediatrics,” who helped establish children's medicine as its own specialty.
Find Cobi in: A Brave Kid's Guide to Leukemia and A Brave Kid's Guide to Lymphoma
The Brave Buddy for procedures
Harvey isn't afraid of anything and loves an adventure, even a trip to get blood drawn.
Named after
William Harvey, the physician who discovered how blood circulates through the body.
Find Harvey in: an upcoming guide to blood draws and other procedures
The Brave Buddy for treatment
Sid is caring, cheerful, and happiest when helping someone through something hard.
Named after
Sidney Farber, a pediatric pathologist regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy.
Find Sid in: A Brave Kid's Guide to Chemotherapy (coming soon)
The Brave Buddy for hospital stays
Flo knows every hallway, and helps kids feel a little more at home when they have to stay overnight.
Named after
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, who changed how hospitals care for patients.
Find Flo in: an upcoming guide to hospital stays
Buddies ask and answer the questions kids are often too nervous to say out loud.
Real terms like “cancer cell” or “port,” explained in ways kids can picture.
A friendly face on every page, so no one feels alone in the story.
Where they live
Brave Buddies live at Sunshine Children's Hospital, a make-believe hospital that looks and feels a lot like the real thing. When they're not helping, they tuck themselves away in the lab, the gift shop, or even the vending machine.
Every Brave Buddy is named after someone who helped change medicine. It's a small seed we hope to plant: a brave kid who loves their Buddy might go looking for the real person behind the name, and maybe someday follow in their footsteps.
Know a medical hero we should name a Buddy after? →Every Brave Kid's Guide pairs a Brave Kid with a Brave Buddy, so kids have a friend on every page.
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