The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba developed a book written in collaboration with children's author and illustrator Mike Parkhill to help kids from northern communities cope with going to the hospital. My New Friend follows Dolly the deer, from a remote community in northern Manitoba, as she goes on her first plane ride to a city where doctors can treat her broken hoof. The book aims to make the journey a bit more understandable. Between a third and a quarter of all children treated at the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg are Métis, Inuit or First Nations. About 4,000 copies My New Friend are being printed in Cree, Oji-Cree and Ojibwe, with plans to publish in even more languages. Parkhill contacted people within the health region and at the hospital to find out the most important messages to get across in the book.
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