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Eleanor Troutt

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Hi! Welcome and thanks for visiting! I'm a Senior Citizen who has been living with type 1 diabetes since 1993. The Little Red Sports Car and Winston the Amazing Dog and Boots the Giant Killer are the results of my own experience living with this challenging illness. Diabetes to me is like a wily opponent that I am constantly trying to out-smart. Sometimes diabetes gets the better of me, but that just challenges me to try harder to beat it - or at least control it. The three books which I have written are all analogies of what living with diabetes is like. They're geared towards young children and are written in a way that, I hope, will make sense to them. My prayer is that these books will give them hope that they can live a normal life - j ...more

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	The Little Red Sports Car: A Modern Fable About Diabetes (You Can Do It! Book 1) by Eleanor Troutt (Goodreads Author), J. Chris Price (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winston the Amazing Dog: An Upbeat Analogy About Diabetes (You Can Do It! Book 2) by Eleanor Troutt (Goodreads Author), Mike Swaim (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boots the Giant Killer: An Upbeat Analogy About Diabetes (3) by Eleanor Troutt (Goodreads Author), Rob Peters (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Little Red Sports Car

This is a fun, upbeat story about a little car that meets a new challenge in life and is able to overcome it. Whether a child has diabetes or not, he will learn about overcoming problems in life. Rudy, The Little Red Sports Car, is not feeling well one day and his owner Bob takes him into a garage for a checkup. Bob learns that he has to make some adjustments in the way he drives it. Rudy's automa Read more of this blog post »

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