brainstrust, the Meg Jones brain cancer charity, has just published The Snaqgle Tooth Splat, an illustrated children’s story book designed to explain to children who have just been diagnosed with brain cancer what a brain tumour is and how the doctors will fight it.

The book has been written by Karen Boswell, illustrated by Jason Mortimer and sponsored by Learning Curve. The foreword is by actress Julie Walters CBE.

The hard facts are that brain cancer kills more children than any other illness; brain tumours account for one quarter of childhood cancer; and brain tumours have overtaken leukaemia as the leading cause of cancer death in children.

To download the press release in full (MS word), please click here.