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Alex’s Super Medicine
Kim Rex
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Kim Rex. Illustrator: Heather Jenkins. Designer: Anita van der Merwe. Editor: Angela Briggs.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Alex’s Super Medicine (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at Alex’s different ideas and invite the child to predict what might happen. Afterwards, distinguish his make-believe solutions from safe ways to handle medicine in everyday life.
- Themes
- Taking medicine: Dr Bongi recommends the medicine, while Alex’s mother is present during the visit and later encourages him. Their roles could prompt discussion of who a child can talk to when medicine tastes unpleasant. The ending presents taking the medicine as followed by improvement and approval, though it does not establish how medicine works in general.
- Worth knowing
- Some scenes show medicine being hidden where a dog or birds may encounter it. A child might benefit from a brief reminder that real medicine should not be concealed or left where animals can reach it.