Sue Glader, the author of the children’s book, Nowhere Hair, wrote the book as a conversation starter between child and adult, because the words are hard to find when you are in the midst of it all. What I’m talking about is cancer and chemotherapy.

Sue Glader has been in those shoes as a 33-year old with a young son and a breast cancer diagnosis. When she went looking for books to help explain things to her son, what she found portrayed the mom as an emotional mess and kinda freaky looking, and the vocabulary in the books were too technical for young kids, or just too sad for her liking. So, Sue decided to make a book that she needed. Nowhere Hair has a cool looking hip mama who happens to be bald. It tells the story of a young girl who tries unsuccessfully to find her mother's missing hair, only to learn that medicine has made it fall out. She learns that she didn't cause the cancer, can't catch it, and that Mommy still is very much up for the job of mothering. The book, written in rhyme, explains hats, scarves, wigs, going bald in public, and the idea of being nice to people who may look a little different than you. It ends with the idea that what is inside of us is far more important than how we look on the outside. It's silly. And touching. And real.