Zeb, Jet and the Ice-Cream Calamity

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School Teacher, Grandmother and Author, Mirabel Lavelle is on a mission to spread allergy awareness after she learned of her grandchildren’s allergies of diary and nuts. She has written this book to help teach children about allergies.

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00:00Hi, I'm Mirabel and I'm the author of Zeb Jets and the Ice Cream Calamity and it is

00:06an adventure story which is set locally along the coastline and the reason why I wrote it

00:14is to raise awareness to food allergy safety.

00:18So I'm a grandmother and two of my grandchildren have food allergies.

00:23One is allergic to dairy, it's not an intolerance, it's an allergy and the other one is allergic

00:29to nuts and so we have to be careful to keep them safe.

00:35Both children have got a prescription so whenever we go to a party or anywhere that we go we

00:42do carry epipens with us but really speaking they're not a magic cure so it's very important

00:51that we keep the children safe.

00:52The reason that I wrote the story was because when I first found out about the allergies

00:58I was quite nervous even if we went somewhere just always trying to make sure that there

01:05wouldn't be any cross-contamination and then one day I thought I would write a story about

01:12it because I love telling stories anyway and I had written many children's stories and

01:18at that point I came up with the idea of a friendly fox cub and an adventurous dog and

01:25I decided to put a pack at the end of the book which would encourage and inspire children

01:32to find out more about allergy and we've also got a comic strip here so children can then

01:41turn the story into a comic strip style story.

01:45We've got what if questions, what if the allergen wasn't an ice cream, what could it be?

01:51Because allergic disease is the largest growing disease in this country among children it

01:56is very important that we raise the awareness to it.

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