Book Review for Anxious Kids

Not that this is rocket science, but if you have a kid whose anxieties routinely center around health, and who used to spend the ride home from nursery school conversing about the H for Hospital sign and who would likely go to the hospital and for which accidents, the book Plague is not an excellent choice. Swear to God, this thing had a giant picture of some sort of vermin on the cover (lice? Murrain?), and consisted entirely of descriptions of various deadly diseases. So he was reading this while I was on the computer, b/c it was safer if Mommy was in the room, and periodically (= every ten seconds or so), he'd say, "Do we get yellow fever in this part of the world?" or "Influenza. Can that kill you?"

A pox (see what I just did there?) on the librarian who let him take this thing out.

Maybe it's genetic: as I note below, my grandmother's favorite epithet translated to "Cholera on you."