ER nurse pens two extra children’s textbooks

Christine Cirillo

Christine Cirillo

Garden City resident, Christine Cirillo, has set pen to paper all over again, publishing two more children’s books in latest months. The two textbooks, portion of her Wellness Consciousness Adventures , concentration on the present coronavirus pandemic and the frequent Flu virus. The titles of the publications are, “No More Flu for Suzie Sue,” and “No Far more Spreading COVID-19.”

 Cirillo, an ER nurse at NYU Winthrop Healthcare facility, said that she made the decision to publish the new publications, just after looking at the influx of people with the novel virus at the medical center before this 12 months.

“When I was doing the job various 12-hour shifts at the medical center through the peak of the pandemic in March and April, I dealt with sufferers with a entire range of signs,” said Cirillo. “They ended up fearful for on their own and concerned about taking the virus residence with them to their loved ones associates.”

In her guide, “No A lot more Spreading COVID-19,” she describes the various symptoms of the virus and prevention procedures these kinds of as quarantining, putting on masks, hand washing and being six ft away from one yet another.

“I utilized different animals in the sea to describe the various symptoms of the virus in a poetic topic. For case in point, on one particular website page I experienced a shark who was unfortunate, due to the fact he was striving to try to eat his supper and he experienced no sense of flavor.”

Other sea creatures she put in the reserve included colorful octopuses, starfish and seahorses.

Cirillo reported that she was fearful for her very own family’s health and fitness soon after paying out so significantly time at the healthcare facility, that she moved into the Yard City Hotel all through the month of March and April.

“After each change I received examined for the virus and I also analyzed numerous occasions for antibodies. I have been unfavorable so considerably, thank goodness,” said Cirillo.

Cirillo wrote her very first collection of children’s publications in 2018. The guides have been known as, “Counting Sweets for Claire the Panda Bear,” and “No Additional Peanuts for Ellie the Elephant.”

They were element of her Health and fitness Consciousness Adventures, and targeted on the matters of diabetic issues and children’s peanut allergic reactions.

She also just lately revised and republished her very first e-book, “No A lot more Peanuts for Ellie the Elephant.”

She graduated from nursing school very last yr and is operating as a training nurse in the ER section at Winthrop. She is now attending graduate school at Molloy Higher education to develop into an ACNP (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.)

All of her publications are chock total of colourful illustrations that young ones will love whilst studying.

The books can be found on-line and in paperback edition as a result of Amazon, Barnes & Nobles and Kindle apart from for “No Far more Spreading COVID-19,” which is only accessible on Kindle.