Watch as your child transforms into a cross-contact detective! This interactive workbook is part story, part step-by-step guide teaching kids and families how to manage cross-contact both inside and outside the home.
Designed to teach children, families and educators how to manage and avoid cross-contact (cross-contamination) in 6 easy steps.
Join Hayden as she learns all about cross-contact, and what she must do to avoid gluten getting into places it shouldn't at the schools Great Bake-Off. Her tummy depends on her! But will she become the gluten-free baking champion? This interactive workbook:
- Equips kids with the skills required to self-manage a gluten-free diet
- Utilises gentle exposure techniques in a safe and supportive environment
- Boosts confidence to assess and eat foods without fear
- Step-by-step learning means the whole family, educators or anyone wanting to learn how to manage cross-contact can benefit
There are a lot of new things you have to learn when you're gluten-free, as Hayden discovers on the day of the school's Great Bake-Off competition. When one of her gluten-free friends warns her about cross-contact, she is eager to learn all she can about it. Thanks to her mum's special cross-contact workbook, Hayden soon finds out all there is to know about stopping gluten from being in places it shouldn't. There's so much good advice, that before long, Hayden is ready to become a top-class cross-contact detective and show off her new skills in the real world. And there's no better place to do that than at the Great Bake-Off competition! By remembering all the lessons in her workbook and with some helpful advice from her friends, Hayden proves herself to be not just a cross-contact expert, but a top contender in the school's Great Bake-Off... so long as she can bake the perfect cake!
Hayden, Cross-Contact Detective is part of a six-book series that will encourage and educate those on their own gluten-free journey. Through age-appropriate stories, young readers can navigate a diagnosis, adapt to dietary change, learn how to read food labels, manage cross-contact and overcome the social challenges of being gluten-free. This heart-warming series about a young girl learning to conquer her gluten-free lifestyle is sure to inspire and entertain.
Stefi Mac is the author of the It's Great to Be Gluten-Free book series, brand founder, and face behind Operation: Bridge the Gap. She's also a sucker for gluten-free cheesecake. She gets giddy anytime she drives past the shop that sells the best gluten-free sourdough in town, much to the amusement of her coeliac daughter. When she isn't tracking down the best food finds, she's probably tucked away in her den multitasking various unfinished projects, watching true crime, or dreaming of the day Genevieve Gorder suddenly pops up out of nowhere and takes over her home's interior. She's an enthusiastic member of Coeliac Australia. A Hashimoto soldier. And, a fierce advocate amongst a young gluten-free community.
Kat Fox is the talented illustrator behind the It's Great to Be Gluten-Free book series and ig2bGF Kids Club characters. Her creative journey began as a small child in the UK, where her world was filled with pencils and texters. Now based in Australia, Kat is an award-winning children's book illustrator and art teacher, taking a playful and fun approach to her work. She's fabulously gluten-free. She's a wife and loving mum to three creative crazies and two fur babies. There's never a dull moment in the KATTY house!
