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    • Educational Outreach Program
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  • Donate
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Clinic Book Program

The following children's books by Dr. Joshua Lawrence Patel Deutsch are free to download, print and distribute.  These books feature farmworker families and address health related topics.  Some of the books are wordless to make them accessible to parents who don't read, or who speak an indigenous language.  If you download the books, consider making a donation to support this program.  100% of donations go towards lowering the cost of the books for health clinics serving farmworker families.  For print copies, purchase from Downtown Book and Sound in Salinas, CA 

These are ideal books for health clinic reading programs.  For a bulk purchase of over 40,000 books (4,000 each of our 10 books), your price per book drops below $1 including tax and shipping. Click here for more information about the cost of bulk purchasing.  For further inquiries, Email [email protected].
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How Tía Guadalupe Beat Diabetes

After Tía Guadalupe is diagnosed with diabetes, her 7-year-old niece Zenaya tries to improve her family's eating habits. Authored by a family physician serving California farmworkers, this book was written to inspire family-centered dietary changes. All revenue will be donated through the author's nonprofit: Justice with Health.
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Animal Alphabet Alliterations

An alphabet book full of animals and alliterations. Alligator aims apple at airplane. Bear buys big bag of black beans. The pictures are entertaining for children and adults. The alliterations are useful for developing phonemic awareness in early readers and future readers. Children will want to read this book again and again. There's no other alphabet book quite like it. All profits will be donated towards reading and health promotion for farmworker families.
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Animal Alphabet Alliterations

This is the coloring book edition of the book "Animal Alphabet Alliterations".  You can read the book and color it in, giving children more fun interactions with the letters of the alphabet.
​An alphabet book full of animals and alliterations. Alligator aims apple at airplane. Bear buys big bag of black beans. The pictures are entertaining for children and adults. The alliterations are useful for developing phonemic awareness in early readers and future readers. Children will want to read this book again and again. There's no other alphabet book quite like it. All profits will be donated towards reading and health promotion for farmworker families.
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El abecedario con animales y aliteraciones

El abecedario en forma de libro con animales y aliteraciones. "Abeja y avispa asustan a ardilla en árbol. Burro bailarín busca bananas en el bosque". Las imágenes son entretenidas para niños y también para adultos. Las aliteraciones son útiles para ayudar a desarrollar capacidades fonéticas a temprana edad. Los niños van a querer leer este libro una y otra vez. No hay otro abecedario como este. Todas las ganancias serán donadas en beneficio de la promoción de la lectura y la salud para familias de trabajadores agrícolas.
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Libro de Color-Leer
El abecedario con animales y aliteraciones

​Versión para colorear del abecedario en forma de libro con animales y aliteraciones. Puedes leer el libro y también colorearlo, así los niños pueden interactuar más con las letras y los animales.
"Abeja y avispa asustan a ardilla en árbol. Burro bailarín busca bananas en el bosque". Las imágenes son entretenidas para niños y también para adultos. Las aliteraciones son útiles para ayudar a desarrollar capacidades fonéticas a temprana edad. Los niños van a querer leer este libro una y otra vez. No hay otro abecedario como este. Todas las ganancias serán donadas en beneficio de la promoción de la lectura y la salud para familias de trabajadores agrícolas.
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Beans and Rice

​"Beans and Rice" is a beautiful rhyming book about a family that eats a diet based on beans, rice, tortillas and home-grown vegetables.  This is a great book for promoting healthy eating and sustainability for children ages 2-7.
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Field of Sunflowers

In Oaxaca, Mexico, a father and daughter plant sunflower seeds in a garden plot that they prepare together. The sunflowers go through their natural life cycle and then birds spread the seeds all over the land. The next spring, there is a beautiful field of sunflowers as far as the eye can see. This is a wordless book designed for children 6 months to 3 years old.
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Animales para colorear

These are simple animal drawings for children ages 1-3 to color in. There are no words or complex backgrounds. The animals are drawn realistic. All pages can be downloaded and printed for free.

Estos son dibujos simples de animales para que los niños de 1 a 3 años los coloreen. No hay palabras ni fondos complejos. Los animales se dibujan realistas. Todas las páginas se pueden descargar e imprimir de forma gratuita.
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Animales en acción

These are simple animal drawings for children ages 4 and up to color in. There are no words or complex backgrounds. The animals are drawn realistic. All pages can be downloaded and printed for free.

Estos son dibujos simples de animales para que los niños de 4 años en adelante los coloreen. No hay palabras ni fondos complejos. Los animales se dibujan realistas. Todas las páginas se pueden descargar e imprimir de forma gratuita.
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Maya Loves Beans

Maya is a 7 year old girl who loves to eat healthy. She is proud of her family's diet of tortillas, beans and vegetables. Created by a family physician, this book is designed to encourage healthy eating in farmworker families. It is written in English and Spanish and appropriate for children ages 2 to 5. Hopefully, Maya can inspire your family too.
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Parts of the Body

This is an introduction to human anatomy and physiology written for children ages 4 and older. The book teaches the major organ systems of the body in the simplest terms, making this fascinating subject accessible to young children. Written by a family physician with young children of his own, this book is part of a nonprofit program to deliver free books to farmworker families in the Salinas Valley.
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Juguemos - Play

A wordless book about playing actively with children. A mother and son go to the park after school to play soccer. Their play is briefly interrupted by a cellphone call before the Mom realizes her son deserves more attention. The pictures tell the whole story. A great book for children under 4 years old. All profits go towards reading and health promotion for farmworker families.
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Counting - Contando

Two children on a ranch gather food and go exploring. Each page engages the reader with something to count from 1 to 10. This is a great introductory counting book for children ages 2-5. This is a bilingual book English-Spanish.
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Lunch - Almuerzo

A family in the Honduran rainforest prepares lunch in a story that captures the diversity of human experience.  This book is based on the author's own experience living in this community.  This is a wordless book appropriate for children 6 months to 6 years old.
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A tomato is a fruit -
​El tomate es una fruta

"A tomato is a fruit" shows the connections between the fruits and vegetables we eat and their purposes from the plant's point of view. This is a great introduction to plant biology for children 4 and up. It's also a great way to get children excited about growing and eating fruits and vegetables. This is a bilingual book English-Spanish.
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¡Apágalo! - Turn it off!

A family addicted to television, videogames, computers and cellphones decides to go screen free after recognizing the adverse impact of screen time on their lives. This is a wordless book designed for children ages 2-8. The pictures tell the whole story. Turn it off! is part of the Justice with Health book series designed by a family physician to promote health and reading in farmworker families. It is a great resource for parents who want to minimize the adverse impact of screens on their children.
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POLITICAL BOOKS

​These books are not typically part of the health clinic book program due to controversial content, but are free for distribution and available upon request.

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